Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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TABLE II.
RETURN OF CASES OF DISEASE TREATED BY THE PAROCHIAL MEDICAL OFFICERS DURING FOUR WEEKS ENDING APRIL 29th, 1858.
New Cases. | Small-Pox. | Chicken Pox | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough | Croup. | Diarrhoea. | Dysentery. | Cholera. | Ague. | Infantile Fever | Typhus. | Rheumatic Fever. | Erysipelas. | Other Zymotic Diseases | Total of Zymotic Dis. | Dis. of Resp. Organs. | Phthisis. | Carbuncles & Boils. | Chron.& Local Rheumatism. | Other Diseases. | Accidents and Injuries. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Totals | 691 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 106 | 131 | 13 | 8 | 35 | 361 | 37 |
Districts, &c. | 67 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 40 | 1 |
Infant Poor House | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | .. |
Upper Holloway | 26 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 12 | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | 9 | 1 |
Lower Holloway | 64 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 4 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 12 | 7 | .. | 1 | 4 | 33 | 7 |
Highbury | 26 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 7 | 5 | .. | 1 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
Thornhill | 157 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 8 | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 2 | .. | 24 | 41 | 1 | .. | 8 | 77 | 6 |
Barnsbury | 68 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 7 | 17 | 1 | .. | 6 | 34 | 3 |
St. Mary | *59 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 3 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | . | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 9 | 10 | .. | .. | 2 | 35 | 3 |
68 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 5 | |
148 | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 13 | 22 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 86 | 9 |
* Two weeks only.