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 NOVEMBER 25th, 1858.
New Cases. | Small-Pox. | Chicken Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | HoopingCough | Crcup. | Diarrhoea. | Dysentery. | Cholera. | Ague. | Infantile Fever | Typhus. | Rheumatic Fever. | Erysipelas. | Other Zymotic Disease.1- | Total of Zymotic Dis. | Dis. of Resp. Organs. | Phthisis. | Carbuncles & Boils. | Chron.& Loca Rheumatism. | Other Diseases. | Accidents and Injuries. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Totals | 1070 | 2 | 4 | 51 | 21 | 25 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 158 | 384 | 5 | 3 | 36 | 445 | 39 |
Districts,&c. Workhouse | 53 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 15 | .. | 2 | 7 | 24 | 1 |
Infant Poor House | 12 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | .. |
Upper Holloway | 40 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 5 | 8 | 1 | .. | 4 | 19 | 3 |
Lower Holloway | 95 | .. | 1 | 6 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 12 | 29 | .. | .. | 4 | 40 | 10 |
Highbury | 74 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | 9 | 24 | .. | .. | 1 | 37 | 3 |
Thornhill | 232 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 4 | .. | 8 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 50 | 85 | 2 | .. | 8 | 75 | 6 | |
Barnsbury | 91 | .. | .. | 5 | 1 | 9 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 21 | 42 | .. | 1 | 1 | 22 | 4 |
St. Mary | 161 | 1 | .. | 11 | 8 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 23 | 77 | .. | .. | 5 | 54 | 2 |
Canonbury | 14 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | 6 | 1 |
St. Peter | 298 | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | , , | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | 22 | 100 | 1 | .. | 6 | 160 | 9 |