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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TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 27th DAY OF AUGUST, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.j Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small Pox....2......2
Chicken Pox....41..••5
Measles....138..••21
Scarlatina....165..1637
Hooping Cough....61..••7
Croup....1••..••1
Diarrhœa15..26510413..397
Dysentery1..11....3
Cholera....22....4
Ague..........11
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever....124..2238
Puerperal Fever......1....1
Rheumatic Fever1..41..17
Erysipelas1..62....9
Diphtheria• •..11....2
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....1710....27
Pyæmia..............
Bronchitis and Catarrh4..5517..3105
Pneumonia....2....24
Pleurisy1..4....16
Delirium Tremens....3......3
Insanity1..2......3
Carbuncle....2....13
All other diseases5085412823413928
Total74895944073601614