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 27th DAY OF OCTOBER, 1860, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Islington Dispensary.Dispensary.Pentonville Convict Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small Pox....2........2
Chicken Pox....4..4....8
Measles....18324....45
Scarlatina....12103..13*38
Hooping Cough....21610....37
Croup....1........1
Diarrhœa3..3812259..87
Dysentery....1........1
Cholera................
Ague........1....1
Continued Fever....5..7..9†21
Puerperal Fever................
Rheumatic Fever3..2..1....6
Erysipelas1..15........16
Diphtheria............11
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....175145..41
Pyæmia................
Bronchitis and Catarrh .18..2194967452400
Pneumonia....2..2..26
Pleurisy....5..1....6
Delirium Tremens................
Insanity2..2........4
Carbuncle................
All other diseases42103935052748141309
Total6910757590433140312030

* Five from Islington,
† One "Typhus," and Eight " Typhoid."