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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 26th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 26th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small pox....81....9
Chicken....3......3
Measles....311....32
Scarlatina..81..918
Hooping....358....43
Croup....1......1
Diarrœa1..23114..39
Dysentery....3......4
Cholera..............
Ague....11....2
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever....87..7*22
Puerperal Fever..............
Rheumatic Fever....53....8
Erysipelas....101....11
Diphtheria....11
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....1619....35
Pyæmia.........11
Bronchitis and Catarrh17..2156442..338
Pneumonia....32..27
Pleurisy1..31....5
Delirium Tremeans..............
Insanity1..611..9
Carbuncle....21....3
All other diseases3810537278468917
Total581091840293271508

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All "Typhoid."