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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 FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 30th DAY OF JULY, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLE II.

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

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers. __JHolloway Dispensary.Pentonville Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small Pox....6......6
Chicken Pox....6......6
Measles....715..224
Scarlatina....133..1026
Hooping Cough2..33....8
Croup..............
Diarrhœa7..3361019..453
Dysentery....34....7
Cholera....32....5
Ague....11114
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever....91..13*23
Puerperal Fever..............
Rheumatic Fever....22..15
Erysipelas1..83....12
Diphtheria....1......1
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....1117....28
Pyæmia..............
Bronchitis and Catarrh7591511..92
Pneumonia..............
Pleurisy....3......3
Delirium Tremens....1......1
Insanity1..2......3
Carbuncle....2......2
All other diseases33116342853381004
Total5111111045254351713

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• 4 of these were "Typhus," and 9 were '• Typhoid."