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.
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 Pox | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |||
.. | 1 | .. | 2 | 3 | |||
24 | 1 | 1 | 26 | ||||
1 | 15 | 8 | .. | 17 | 41 | ||
48 | 5 | .. | .. | 53 | |||
.. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
2 | 16 | 10 | i | 2 | 31 | ||
Dysentery | .. | .. | |||||
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever | 6 | 11 | 12* | 20 | |||
6 | 4 | 10 | |||||
14 | .. | 14 | |||||
2 | .. | 2 | |||||
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis | 25 | 3+ | 1 | .. | 29 | ||
7 | 298 | 89 | 33 | 1 | 428 | ||
7 | 2 | 9 | |||||
8 | 1 | .. | 1 | 10 | |||
Delirium Tremens | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |
1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||
.. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
30 | 7 | 571 | 302 | 42 | 11 | 963 | |
40 | S | 1045 | 440 | 77 | 48 | 1658 |
* Two of these were "Typhus," and ten * Typhoid."
t Cases of sore throat in the first three weeks included among " All other diseases."