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 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 | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 4 |
Chicken Pox | .. | .. | 6 | 2 | .. | .. | 8 |
Measles | .. | .. | 15 | 9 | .. | .. | 24 |
Scarlatina | .. | .. | 61 | 26 | .. | 12 | 99 |
Hooping Cough | .. | .. | 15 | 5 | .. | .. | 20 |
Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diarrhœa | 1 | .. | 42 | 13 | 6 | .. | 62 |
Dysentery | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Ague | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever | .. | .. | 12 | 6 | .. | 28* | 46 |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Rheumatic Fever | 1 | .. | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | 6 |
Erysipelas | 1 | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | 9 |
Diphtheria | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 |
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis | .. | .. | 21 | 11 | .. | .. | 32 |
Pyæmia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Bronchitis and Catarrh | 11 | .. | 83 | 25 | 16 | 1 | 136 |
Pneumonia | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Pleurisy | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | 4 |
Delirium Tremens | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Insanity | 2 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 6 |
Carbuncle | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
All other diseases | 34 | 10 | 466 | 261 | 31 | 7 | 809 |
Total | 51 | 10 | 747 | 365 | 53 | 48 | 1274 |
•All cases of "Typhoid."