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]
This page requires JavaScript
TABLE III.
Shewing the Number of Deaths registered in each Ward, distinguishing those from certain important Diseases and Classes of Disease, and the proportion borne by these Deaths to the total mortality of the Ward.
[Omitting Deaths in the Workhouse and Infant Poor-honse, and such Deaths as could not be correctly referred to the Ward in which they occurred.]
Ward 1 | Ward 2 | Ward 3. | Ward 4. | Ward 5. | Ward 6. | Ward 7. | Ward 8. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Per cent. of all dths. | Per cent. of all dths. | Per cent. of all dths. | Per cent of all dths. | Per cent. of all dths. | Per cent. of all dths. | Per cent. of all dths. | Per cent. of all dths. | |||||||||
All Causes. | 153 | 221 | 234 | 508 | 265 | 228 | 276 | 553 | ||||||||
Zymotic diseases | 32 | 20.9 | 60 | 27.1 | 32.3 | 135 | 26.5 | 59 | 22.2 | 54 | 23.6 | 76 | 27.5 | 189 | 34.1 | |
Tubercular diseases | 24 | 15.6 | 21 | 10.8 | 12.6 | 86 | 16.9 | 44 | 16.6 | 36 | 15.7 | 42 | 15.2 | 83 | 15.0 | |
Deaths under 5 yrs. | 52 | 33.9 | 106 | 47.9 | 130 | 45.7 | 280 | 55.1 | 125 | 47.1 | 94 | 41.2 | 128 | 46.1 | 288 | 52.0 |
Phthisis | 20 | 13.0 | 20 | 9.0 | 30 | 10.5 | 69 | 13.5 | 32 | 12.0 | 27 | 11.8 | 29 | 10.5 | 65 | 11.7 |
Dis. of Org. of Res. | 20 | 13.0 | 58 | 26.2 | 51 | 179 | 103 | 20.2 | 51 | 20.3 | 46 | 20.1 | 48 | 17.3 | 91 | 16.4 |
Small Pox | 3 | 1.9 | 1 | 0.3 | 6 | 1.1 | 2 | 0.7 | 6 | 1.0 | ||||||
Meales | 1 | 0.6 | 14 | 6.3 | 12 | 4.2 | 22 | 4.3 | 5 | 1.8 | 7 | 3.0 | 6 | 2 1 | 28 | 5.0 |
Scarlatina | 5 | 3.2 | 5 | 2.2 | 15 | 5.2 | 19 | 3.7 | 11 | 4.1 | 12 | 5.2 | 7 | 2.5 | 41 | 7.4 |
Epc. Sore Throat | 3 | 1.9 | 4 | 1 8 | 9 | 3.1 | 7 | 1.3 | 2 | 11 | 4 8 | 6 | 2 1 | 15 | 2.7 | |
Hooping Cough | 11 | 7.1 | 21 | 95 | 20 | 7.0 | 24 | 4.7 | 11 | 4.1 | 11 | 4.8 | 17 | 6.1 | 33 | 5.9 |
Diarrhoea & Cholera | 3 | 1.9 | 7 | 3.1 | 14 | 49 | 20 | 3.9 | 9 | 3.3 | 4 | 1.7 | 9 | 3.2 | 32 | 5.7 |
Fever | 1 | 0.6 | 8 | 3.6 | 12 | 4.2 | 10 | 1.9 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | 1.7 | 15 | 5.4 | 13 | 2.3 |
TABLE IV.
New Cases of Disease coming under Treatment during the Year ending Saturday the 1st day of January, 1859, at the following Institutions:—
Workhouse. | Infant Poor House. | Out Patient Paupers. | Hollow ay Dispensary. | Pentonville Convict Prison. | Total. | London Fever Hospital. | Small Pox Hospital. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 37 | 10 | 47 | 2 | 358* | |||
Chicken Pox | 45 | 13 | 58 | 2 | 1 | |||
Measles | 348 | 84 | 432 | 4 | 6 | |||
Scarlatina | 14 | 140 | 17 | 171 | 111 | |||
Hooping Cough | 1 | 246 | 166 | 413 | 4 | |||
Croup | 8 | 1 | 9 | |||||
Diarrhœa | 43 | 1 | 604 | 321 | 62 | 1031 | 5 | |
Dysentery | .. | 18 | 12 | 30 | 1 | |||
Cholera | 3 | 4 | 7 | |||||
Ague | 2 | 24 | 23 | 49 | 10 | |||
Continued Fever | 1 | 67 | 103 | 171 | 202 | |||
Puerperal Fever | .. | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Rheumatic Fever | 12 | 43 | 34 | 89 | 4 | |||
Erysipelas | 6 | 82 | 24 | 5 | 117 | 4 | ||
Diphtheria | 6 | 2 | 8 | |||||
Pyaemia | ||||||||
Bronchitis and Catarrh | 144 | 1 | 2140 | 782 | 343 | 3410 | 25 | |
Pneumonia | 2 | 40 | 45 | 87 | 30 | 1 | ||
Pleurisy | 26 | 8 | 34 | 2 | ||||
Delirium Tremens | 5 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 1 | |||
Insanity | 16 | 37 | 1 | 2 | 56 | 1 | ||
Carbuncle | 2 | 15 | 2 | 19 | 1 | |||
All other Diseases | 572 | 105 | 5726 | 3670 | 499 | 10,572 | 112 | 2 |
Total | 806 | 121 | 9664 | 5326 | 911 | 16,628 | 521 | 368 |
* Thirty-two of these from Islington.