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 OPPICERS DURING FOUR WEEKS ENDING OCTOBER 28th, 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 Reap. Organs. | Phthisis. | Carbuncles & Boils. | Chron.& Locai Rheumatism. | Other Diseases. | Accidents and Injuries. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Totals. | 868 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 25 | 15 | 1 | 37 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 152 | 157 | 11 | 2 | 28 | 480 | 38 |
Districts, &c. Workhouse | 60 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 39 | 1 |
Infant Poor House | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. |
Upper Holloway | 37 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | .. | 12 | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 16 | 5 |
Lower Holloway | 90 | .. | 1 | 4 | .. | 4 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 1 | 4 | 21 | 13 | 2 | .. | 3 | 44 | 13 |
Highbury | 71 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | .. | .. | 2 | 49 | 4 |
Thornhill | 157 | .. | .. | 4 | 4 | 1 | .. | 9 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 37 | 3 | .. | 5 | 84 | 2 |
Barnsbury | 83 | .. | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 20 | 18 | 1 | .. | 6 | 37 | 1 |
St. Mary | 121 | .. | .. | .. | 7 | .. | .. | 5 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 16 | 29 | .. | .. | .. | 72 | 4 |
Canonbury | 13 | .. | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | 9 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. |
St. Peter | 225 | .. | .. | 2 | 4 | 7 | .. | 8 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 43 | 4 | .. | 2 | 136 | 8 |