London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Islington 1858

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]

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TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 29th DAY OF JANUARY, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small Pox33..17
..1..23
241..126
1158..1741
485....53
........
21610i231
Dysentery........
......
......
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever611..12*20
........
64..10
14....14
2....2
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis253+1..29
........
729889331428
72..9
..81..110
Delirium Tremens..2......2
1........1
..........
3075713024211963
40S104544077481658

* Two of these were "Typhus," and ten * Typhoid."
t Cases of sore throat in the first three weeks included among " All other diseases."