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 FIVE WEEKS ENDING JULY 1st, 1858.
New Cases. | Small-Pox. | Chicken Pox | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough | Crcup. | Diarrhoea. | Dysentery. | Cholera. | Ague. | Infantile Fever | Typhus. | Rheumatic Fever. | Erysipelas. | Other Zymotic Disease? | Total of Zymotic Dis. | Dis. of Resp. I Organs. | Phthisis. | Carbuncles & Boils. | Chron.& Local Rheumatism. | Other Diseases. | Accidents and Injuries. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Totals | 1081 | 1 | 11 | 72 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 107 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 247 | 108 | 9 | 4 | 42 | 621 | 50 |
Districts, &c. | 70 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 1 | .. | 9 | 40 | 4 |
Infant Poor House | 17 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 17 | .. |
Upppr Hollo way | 44 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 3 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | 30 | 1 |
Lower Holloway | 92 | .. | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | 21 | 11 | .. | .. | 5 | 39 | 16 |
Highbury | 33 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 7 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 19 | 2 |
Thornhill | 218 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 7 | .. | 30 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 4 | 60 | 27 | 1 | .. | 7 | 119 | 4 |
Barnsbury | 86 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 14 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 16 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 31 | 4 |
St. Mary | 172 | .. | 3 | 13 | .. | 1 | .. | 24 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 43 | 16 | .. | .. | 1 | 108 | 4 |
Canonbury | 15 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 6 | 1 |
St. peter | 334 | .. | .. | 43 | 1 | 3 | .. | 20 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 75 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 212 | 14 |