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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 OP DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, TIIE 1st DAY OF OCTOBER, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OP DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, TIIE 1st DAY OF OCTOBER, 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....5....27
Chicken Pox..............
Meales....4912....61
Scarlatina....5912..2091
Hooping Cough....103....13
Croup..............
Diarrhœa9..124337..173
Dysentery1..31....5
Cholera..............
Ague..............
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever....77..29*43
Puerperal Fever..............
Rheumatic Fever2..8....111
Erysipelas......112
Diphtheria..............
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....2919..149
Pyæmia..............
Bronchitis and Catarrh17..1062924..176
Pneumonia....21..47
Pleurisy....5....16
delirium Tremens....1......1
Insanity2..2......4
Carbundle..........11
All other diseases42963629562101054
Totals739104641294701704

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* 1 "Typhus"—28 "Typhoid."