London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Islington 1860

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

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TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 26th DAY OF MAY, 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....101....2101*114
Chicken Pox....431......8
Measles....59155..2..81
Scarlatina....538..4..20
Hooping Cough....1025......17
Croup....1..........1
Diarrhœa3..278105....53
Dysentery........2......2
Cholera..................
Ague....5..4..3..12
Continued Fever....3..3..10†..16
Puerperal Fever..................
Rheumatic Fever1..211..1..6
Erysipelas....722..1..12
Diphtheria............1..1
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....828......18
Pyæmia..................
Bronchitis and Catarrh10..1243927151..216
Pneumonia....715..1..14
Pleurisy....21....4..7
Delirium Tremens....3..........3
Insanity1..4..........5
Carbuncle1..1..........2
All other diseases314394554277559..1324
Total47467663235875391011932

* Two of these from Islington Parish, one of which is enumerated also among the " Out Patient Paupers."
† Five of these were " Typhus " and five " Typhoid."