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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 FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 30th DAY OF JUNE, 1860, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 30th DAY OF JUNE, 1860, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Islington Dispensary.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Convict Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small Pox....3..3....6
Chicken Pox....9..2....11
Measles....862226..4138
Scarlatina....923..721
Hooping Cough....1214....17
Croup................
Diarrhœa....3641821†185
Dysentery....1..1....2
Cholera................
Ague....4..9..114
Continued Fever....3..6..12121
Puerperal Fever............11
Rheumatic Fever1..41....28
Erysipelas....212....5
Diphtheria................
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....1449....27
Pyæmia................
Bronchitis and Catarrh10..1264840121237
Pneumonia....4..5..211
Pleurisy....2......13
Delirium Tremens............11
Insanity3..6........9
Carbuncle....1........1
All other diseases4074656143256661523
Total59778769745399392141

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* Eleven "Typhus" and one '"Typhoid." The cases of "Typhus" were admitted from two houses situated
respectively in St. George's-in-the-East and Hackney. It must not, therefore, be inferred that Typhus is at all
prevalent in London.
† Due to a fault in the diet.