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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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Table: TABLE II.RETURN OF CASES OF DISEASE TREATED BY THE PAROCHIAL MEDICAL OFFICERS DURING FIVE WEEKS ENDING SEPTEMBER 30th, 1858.

TABLE II.

RETURN OF CASES OF DISEASE TREATED BY THE PAROCHIAL MEDICAL OFFICERS DURING FIVE WEEKS ENDING SEPTEMBER 30th, 1858.

New Cases.Small-Pox.Chicken Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.HoopingCoughCrcup.Diarrhoea.Dysentery.Cholera.Ague.Infantile FeveiTyphus.Rheumatic Fever.Erysipelas.Other Zymotic DiseasesTotal of Zymotic Dis.Dis. of Resp. Organs.Phthisis.Carbuncles & Boils.Chron.& Loca] Rheumatism.Other Diseases.Accidents anJ Injuries.
Totals.1091910255014010721019910102571081424962536
Districts,Sic. Workhouse78............3..........1..1556854..
Infant Poor House18......5......................5........13..
Upper Holloway529..........8........2..21224..1124..
Lower Holloway104..3613..13..1....1..223211....2536
Highbury79..5112..8......1....132241....511
Thornhill219..16213..23..........3..158271..141163
Barnsbury93..13..2..9........1..211912....5534
St. Mary134. ...84....161......2..2..33181110701
Canonbury11......................1......11....432
St. Peter303....1184..271......251160265..518819