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 FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 26th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Hollo way Dispensary.Pentonville Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small pox....5....16
Chicken pox....32....5
Measles....1731....48
Scarlatina....6744..12123
Hooping Cough....138....21
Croup....1......1
Diarrhœa2..1451..22
Dysentery....1......1
Cholera..............
Ague....4......4
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever....103..29*42
Puerperal Fever..............
Rheumatic Fever4..10....216
Erysipelas2..43....9
Diphtheria..............
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....2718..247
Pyæmia..............
Bronchitis and Catarrh22..19254311310
Pneumonia....1......1
Pleurisy....22....4
Delirium Tremens....1......1
Insanity3..3......6
Carbuncle....3......3
All other diseases414418249293744
Total74479641961501404

*All "Typhoid."