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 OP DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 29th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 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....1..1....2
Chicken Pox....4..3....7
Measles....14413..132
Scarlatina....787..931
Hooping Cough1..11712....31
Croup........1....1
Diarrhoea7..91162727*..168
Dysentery....3........3
Cholera....1........1
Ague....1..1..13
Continued Fever....114..10†16
Puerperal Fever................
Rheumatic Fever........3..14
Erysipelas....6..1....7
Diphtheria................
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis1..27810....46
Pyæmia................
Bronchitis and Catarrh6..152313026..245
Pneumonia......12..14
Pleurisy....3......14
Delirium Tremens4............4
Insanity3..4........7
Carbuncle........1....1
All other diseases36105155843439251585
Total5810841660459145292202

* Chiefly arising from a discovered error in dietary,
f Nine " Typhoid and One "Typhus."