Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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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 | .. | .. | 2 | 7 |
Chicken Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Meales | .. | .. | 49 | 12 | .. | .. | 61 |
Scarlatina | .. | .. | 59 | 12 | .. | 20 | 91 |
Hooping Cough | .. | .. | 10 | 3 | .. | .. | 13 |
Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diarrhœa | 9 | .. | 124 | 33 | 7 | .. | 173 |
Dysentery | 1 | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | 5 |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Ague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever | .. | .. | 7 | 7 | .. | 29* | 43 |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Rheumatic Fever | 2 | .. | 8 | .. | .. | 1 | 11 |
Erysipelas | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Diphtheria | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis | .. | .. | 29 | 19 | .. | 1 | 49 |
Pyæmia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Bronchitis and Catarrh | 17 | .. | 106 | 29 | 24 | .. | 176 |
Pneumonia | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 4 | 7 |
Pleurisy | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | 1 | 6 |
delirium Tremens | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Insanity | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 4 |
Carbundle | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
All other diseases | 42 | 9 | 636 | 295 | 62 | 10 | 1054 |
Totals | 73 | 9 | 1046 | 412 | 94 | 70 | 1704 |
* 1 "Typhus"—28 "Typhoid."