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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 HIE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 24th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1860, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING HIE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 24th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 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....21......4
ChickenPox....722....11
Measles....1718..228
Scarlatina....1114..723
Hooping Cough....211612....49
Croup................
Diarrhœa2..434144..67
Dysentery....2........2
Cholera................
Ague........1....1
Continued Fever....11..5..5*21
Puerperal Fever................
Rheumatic Fever....343....10
Erysipelas1..755..220
Diphtheria................
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....10292..23
Pyaemia................
Bronchitis and Catarrh1712115710223..411
Pneumonia1..4..2..18
Pleurisy....1......23
Delirium Tremens1............–
Insanity....31......4
Carbuncle................
All other diseases3093875233355451343
Total521074061750283252029

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* Tour of these Typhoid, and one Typhus.