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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 III.Shewing the Number of Deaths registered in each Ward, distinguishing those from certain important Diseases and Classes of Disease.[Omitting Deaths in the Workhouse and Infant Poor-house, and such Deaths as could not be correctly referred to the Ward in which they occurred.]

TABLE III.

Shewing the Number of Deaths registered in each Ward, distinguishing those from certain important Diseases and Classes of Disease.

[Omitting Deaths in the Workhouse and Infant Poor-house, and such Deaths as could not be correctly referred to the Ward in which they occurred.]

All Causes.Ward 1.Ward 2Ward 3.Ward 4.Ward 5.Ward 6.Ward 7.Ward 8.
207221293534307210257466
Zymotic diseases757694167925754116
Tubercular diseases3030508746434889
Deaths under 5 yrs.8910913228513681108217
Phthisis1919365837352874
Dis. of Org. of Res.1529357037284575
Small pox103031035
Measles1736119164
Scarlatina193130572317831
Diphtheria314136429
Hooping Cough .37141716111023
Diarrhœa & Cholera916183017131322
Fever75121311877

Table: TABLE IV.New Cases of Disease coming untler Treatment during the Weekending Saturday the 31st day of December, 1859, at the following Institutions:—

TABLE IV.

New Cases of Disease coming untler Treatment during the Weekending Saturday the 31st day of December, 1859, at the following Institutions:—

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out Patient Paupers.Hollo way Dispensary.Peritonville Convict Prison.Total.London Fever Hospital.Small Pox Hospital.
Small pox4..5413..71131170*
Chicken pox....6915..8421
Measles..2236140..37864
Scarlatina..1310161..4721662
Hooping Cough2..20664..272....
Croup....73..10....
Diarrhœa47..9823638214743..
Dyaentry2..2310..35....
Cholera....74..11....
Ague1..151012711..
Continued Fever4..12186..211220+1
Puerperal Fever......1..1....
Rhematic Fever17..6420..1016..
Erysiplease5..861811102..
Diphtheria....117..18....
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....22715753896..
Pyæmia............2..
Bronchitis and Catarrh148..1887572307291410..
Pneumonia1..3911..5118..
Pleurisy2..426..507..
Delirium Tremens1..12....13....
Insanity22..331157....
carbuncle1..1521192..
All other Diseases47011066363557528113011087
Total727113110825221926180695821185

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*Forty-eight of these from Islington.
+Forty-eight were cases of Typhus and 172 Typhoid.