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 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 | .. | .. | 1 | 6 |
Chicken pox | .. | .. | 3 | 2 | .. | .. | 5 |
Measles | .. | .. | 17 | 31 | .. | .. | 48 |
Scarlatina | .. | .. | 67 | 44 | .. | 12 | 123 |
Hooping Cough | .. | .. | 13 | 8 | .. | .. | 21 |
Croup | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Diarrhœa | 2 | .. | 14 | 5 | 1 | .. | 22 |
Dysentery | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Ague | .. | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 4 |
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever | .. | .. | 10 | 3 | .. | 29* | 42 |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Rheumatic Fever | 4 | .. | 10 | .. | .. | 2 | 16 |
Erysipelas | 2 | .. | 4 | 3 | .. | .. | 9 |
Diphtheria | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis | .. | .. | 27 | 18 | .. | 2 | 47 |
Pyæmia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Bronchitis and Catarrh | 22 | .. | 192 | 54 | 31 | 1 | 310 |
Pneumonia | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Pleurisy | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 4 |
Delirium Tremens | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Insanity | 3 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 6 |
Carbuncle | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
All other diseases | 41 | 4 | 418 | 249 | 29 | 3 | 744 |
Total | 74 | 4 | 796 | 419 | 61 | 50 | 1404 |
*All "Typhoid."