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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 1860

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

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Table: TABLEII.NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 31st DAY OF MARCH, 1860, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLEII.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 31st DAY OF MARCH, 1860, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Islington Dispensary.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Convict Prison.London Fever Hospital.Small Pox Hospital.Total.
Small Pox....2523..31481181
Chicken Pox....1211......14
Measles....314......136
Scarlatina....1492..7..32
Hooping Cough....1123......16
Croup....3..1......4
Diarrhœa3..277123....52
Dysentery....111......3
Cholera..................
Ague....244......10
Continued Fever....616..8†..21
Puerperal Fever....1..........1
Rheumatic Fever2..3..4..1..10
Erysipelas....613..1..11
Diphtheria..................
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....1811101....40
Pyæmia..................
Bronchitis and Catarrh25..396124130472..724
Pneumonia1..10..1..5..17
Pleurisy....4..1..1..6
Delirium Tremens..................
Insanity....61........7
Carbuncle....2..........2
All other diseases305604971384488..2050
Total6151182113956699361493237

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* Of these 19 were from Islington, but 11 of them are also reckoned among the "Out Patient Paupers."
† All " Typhoid."