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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1859

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

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Table: TABLE II.NEW CASES or DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 2nd DAY OF APRIL, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLE II.

NEW CASES or DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 2nd DAY OF APRIL, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small pox2..81..213
Chicken....62....8
Measles....392....41
Scarlatina....9....1625
Hooping Cough....268....34
Croup....2......2
Diarrhœa2..18144..38
Dysentery....21....3
Cholera....2......2
Ague....32..27
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever....913..26*48
Puerperal Fever..............
Rheumatic3..54....12
Erysipelas....62....8
Diphtheria....13....4
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....15211..37
Pyæmia..............
Bronchitis and Catarrh14..22263301336
Pneumonia....52..18
Pleurisy....3....14
Delirium Tremens1..1......2
Insanity3..5......8
Carbuncle....1......1
All other diseases401863836856141134
Total6518102650697631775

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* 12 " Typhus " and 14 "Typhoid," but only 1 of he latter from this parish.