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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: TABLE II.NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 28th DAY OF JANUARY, 1860, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 28th DAY OF JANUARY, 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....2351..1134*164
Chicken Pox....241......7
Measles....931......30
Scarlatina....1789..10..44
Hooping Cough1..11..5......17
Croup....2..........2
Diarrhœa1..16454....30
Dysentery....1..........1
Cholera..................
Ague....3..1......4
Continued Fever....5..8..11†..24
Puerperal Fever..................
Rheumatic Fever....111......3
Erysipelas....8..3......11
Diphtheria........2......2
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....1479......30
Pyæmia..................
Bronchitis and Catarrh1913071199914....559
Pneumonia....1527......24
Pleurisy....2......1..3
Delirium Tremens....1..........1
Insanity3..41........8
Carbuncle1..............1
All other diseases3711504814258357..1666
Total622994596841053301342631

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* Eight of these were Islington cases, but three of the number are also reckoned among the " Out-Patient Paupers."
† All "Typhoid."