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 AUGUST 26th, 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 Hesp. Organs. | Phthisis. | Carbuncles & Boils. | I Cliron.& Local Rheumatism. | Othe.r Diseases. | Accidents and Injuries. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Totals | 850 | 6 | 3 | 25 | 13 | 19 | 0 | 1 135 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 227 | 63 | 13 | 1 | 18 | 492 | 36 |
Districts, &c. Workhouse | 76 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 10 | 3 | 3 | .. | 6 | 50 | 4 |
Infant Poor House | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. |
Upper Holloway | 26 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 7 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 14 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 10 | .. |
Lower Holloway | 74 | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | 3 | .. | 14 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 26 | 5 | .. | .. | 1 | 34 | 8 |
Highbury | 48 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 13 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 16 | .. | 3 | .. | 3 | 25 | 1 |
Thornhill | 155 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | .. | 27 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 4 | 53 | 12 | 2 | .. | 3 | 80 | 5 |
Barnsbury | 80 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 14 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 17' | 7 | 1 | .. | .. | 52 | 3 |
St. Mary | 130 | .. | .. | 10 | 1 | .. | .. | 28 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 41 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 61 | 4 |
Canonbury | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
St. Peter | 255 | .. | .. | 10 | 3 | 4 | .. | 27 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 49 | 14 | 2 | .. | 4 | 176 | 10 |