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

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Islington 1859

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

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* 12 of these were " Typhus," of which 2 were from Islington; and 2 were "Typhoid," both from this parish.

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 30th DAY OF APRIL, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Prison.London FeverTotal.
Small Pox2..11..26
Chicken Pox....81....9
Measles....113..• •14
Scarlatina....1614..737
Hooping Cough....126....18
Croup..............
Diarrhoea2..2014....54
Dysentery..............
Cholera..............
Ague1..2....14
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever1..1016..14*41
Puerperal Fever..............
Rheumatic1..3......4
Erysipelas....62....8
Diphtheria....1......1
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....1281..21
Pyæmia..............
Bronchitis and Catarrh10..17173241279
Pneumonia....31..48
Pleurisy....2....13
Delirium Tremens....2......2
Insanity1..1......2
Carbuncle....1......1
All other diseases308512265529876
Total48879440495391388