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 FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 29th DAY OF OCTOBER, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small Pox....22....4
Chicken Pox....62....8
Measles....159....24
Scarlatina....6126..1299
Hooping Cough....155....20
Croup..............
Diarrhœa1..42136..62
Dysentery....11....2
Cholera..............
Ague......1....1
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever....126..28*46
Puerperal Fever..............
Rheumatic Fever1..41....6
Erysipelas1..8......9
Diphtheria....11....2
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....2111....32
Pyæmia..............
Bronchitis and Catarrh11..8325161136
Pneumonia....2......2
Pleurisy....31....4
Delirium Tremens..............
Insanity2..4......6
Carbuncle1..1......2
All other diseases3410466261317809
Total511074736553481274

•All cases of "Typhoid."