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Islington 1859

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]

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Table: TABLE II.NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 31st DAY OF DECEMBER, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 31st DAY OF DECEMBER, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small Pox....51..17
Chicken pox....51....6
Measles..256....13
Scarlatina....2824..2274
Hooping Cough....124....16
Croup....12....3
Diarrhœa2..25156..48
Dysentery....3......3
Cholera..............
Ague......1....1
Continued Fever....166..13*35
Puerperal Fever..............
Rheumatic Fever1..62..110
Erysipelas....122..115
Diphtheria....1......1
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....185..326
Pyæmia..............
Bronchitis and Catarrh18..2567728..379
Pneumonia....42....6
Pleurisy....21..14
Delirium Tremens..............
Insanity4..4......8
Carbuncle....2......2
All other diseases454458270544835
Total70686341988461492

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*All "Typhoid."