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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Islington 1858
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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It is important that medical advice should be taken early in the disease, and not be deferred until alarming symptoms are exhibited.
| Mean Temperature (Greenwich.) | Par sh cases of Diarrhcea. | Deaths from Diarrhoea and Cholera | Pariah Cases ol Fever. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1856. | 1857. | 1858. | 1856. | 1857. | 1858. | 1856. | 1857. | 1858. | 1856. | 1857. | 1858. | |
| 1st Week of M onth . | 53.3° | 60.6° | 66.2° | 4 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2nd | 567° | 56 0° | 63.8° | 4 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 3rd | 59.1° | 60.3° | 67.7° | 12 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 4th | 55.6° | 67.3° | 64.5° | 11 | 25 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 5th | 6 3.4° | 62.4° | 58.6° | 8 | 30 | 38 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Total | mean 57.6° | mean 61.3° | mean 64.1° | 39 | 83 | 107 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 15 | 4 |
One thousand and eighty-one persons have applied for medical relief to the
District Surgeons, or have fallen sick at the Workhouse and Infant Poorhouse:
of these 247 were cases of diseases of the zymotic class ; the number of this
class in the corresponding five weeks last year having been 173. The difference
has been mainly due to the greater number of cases of diarrhcea and measles.
The comparison with former years as respects diarrhcea may be made by the
aid of the Table above. No less than 72 cases of measles have come under
treatment this month, against 39 in the 5 weeks of June 1856, and 14 in the
corresponding weeks of 18,57. The high number of 1,081 cases is also
swollen by an unusual influx of cases of acute and chronic maladies not
included in the zymotic class, nor specially named in Table 2.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
42, Myddelton Square,
July 8th, 1858.