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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1859

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

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Table: TABLE II.NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 2nd DAY OF JULY, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 2nd DAY OF JULY, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small Pox....71..19
Chicken Pox....112....13
Measles....1025..136
Scarlatina....721..1745
Hooping Cough....135....18
Croup....1......1
Diarrhœa4..733141113
Dysentery....11....2
Cholera..............
Ague....32..27
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever1..136..11*31
Puerperal Fever..............
Rheumatic Fever2..61....9
Erysipelas....51....6
Diphtheria....2......2
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....22142..38
Pyæmia..........11
Bronchitis and Catarrh10..1012915..155
Pneumonia1..5....17
Pleurisy....2....13
Delirium Tremens..............
Insanity1..2......3
Carbuncle....11....2
All other diseases42176833574861153
Total611796849769421654

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* 5 of those were "Typhus," and 6 were "Typhoid."