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 DECEMBER 30th, 1858.
New Cases. | Small-Pox. | Chicken Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | HoopingCough | Croup. | Diarrhoea. | Dysentery. | Cholera. | Ague. | Infantile Fever | Typhus. | Rheumatic Fever. | Erysipelas. | Other Zymotic Diseases | Total of Zymotic Dis. | Dis. of Resp. Organs. | Phthisis. | Carbuncles & Boils. | Chron.& Loca Rheumatism. | Other Diseases. | Accidents and Injuries. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Totals | 1285 | 2 | 5 | 44 | 17 | 46 | 2 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 184 | 434 | 15 | 4 | 54 | 541 | 53 |
Districts, &c. Workhouse | 83 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 4 | 30 | .. | .. | 7 | 41 | 1 |
Infant Poor House | 24 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 22 | .. | |
Upper Holloway | 71 | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 40 | 3 |
Lower Holloway | 117 | .. | 1 | 8 | .. | 8 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 4 | 3 | 27 | 32 | 1 | .. | 8 | 36 | 13 |
Highbury | 127 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 39 | .. | 1 | 2 | 54 | 8 |
Thornhill | 253 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 55 | 102 | 1 | .. | 9 | 83 | 3 |
Barnsbury | 128 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 14 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 20 | 60 | 1 | .. | 3 | 38 | 6 |
St. Mary | 170 | .. | 1 | 6 | 1 | 9 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 22 | 70 | 5 | .. | 8 | 58 | 7 |
Canonbury | 18 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 6 | .. | .. | 4 | 4 | 1 |
St. Peter | 294 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 10 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 82 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 165 | 11 |