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Islington 1860

[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 FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 28 th DAY OF APRIL, 1860, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 28 th DAY OF APRIL, 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....19..1..1991120
Chicken Pox....2..2......4
Measles....4413........57
Scarlatina..1333..818
Hooping Cough1..1023......16
Croup..................
Diarrhœa1..16..112....35
Dysentery....31........4
Cholera..................
Ague....211..1..5
Continued Fever....3110..8†..22
Puerperal Fever..................
Rheumatic Fever....3..1......4
Erysipelas....541......10
Diphtheria........1......1
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....12414......30
Pyaemia..................
Bronchitis and Catarrh10..229666754....426
Pneumonia....244..3..13
Pleurisy....31....1..5
Delirium Tremens....1..........1
Insanity3..1..........4
Carbuncle....111......3
All other diseases365369610202568..1286
Total51672871632211230992064

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* Five Irom Islington Parish, of whom three are also enumerated among the " Out Patient Paupers."
† Seven Typhoid and one Typhus.