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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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The weekly progress of measles and scarlet fever, are both shewn in the following table, which is in continuation of those in former reports:—
| Mean Temperature. (Greenwich.) | Parish Cases of Diarrhœa and Cholera. | Deaths from Diarrhcœa and Cholera. | Measles, | Scarlet Fever. | Deaths from Diphtheria. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths | Parish cases. | | Deaths. | Parish cases. | ||||||||||||||
| SEPT. | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1859 | 1859 | 1859 | 1859 | 1859 |
| 1st Week | 61.0° | 60.4° | 59.4° | 57.5° | 62 | 62 | 32 | 35 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2nd ,, | 57.5° | 60.5° | 59.4° | 58.0° | 51 | 46 | 30 | 37 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 3rd „ | 58.7° | 62.1° | 63.4° | 53.8° | 39 | 16 | 22 | 25 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 13 | 6 |
| 4th „ | 53.7° | 59.1° | 58.6° | 56.5° | 48 | 25 | 17 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 0 |
| 5th „ | 52.9° | 58.4° | 57.6° | 58.7° | 27 | 15 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 6 | 29 | 3 |
| Total | 56.7° | 60.1° | 59.6° | 56.9° | 227 | 164 | 108 | 134 | 28 | 18 | 14 | 26 | 14 | 49 | 20 | 59 | 10 |
Seventeen hundred and seven new cases of disease were entered on the books
of the several establishments from which I receive returns. Of these,
sixty-one were cases of measles, and ninety-one of scarlet fever. There were
also forty-nine cases of tonsillitis and other forms of sore throat.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
October 5th, 1859.