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 FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 29th DAY OF DECEMBER, 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......6......7
Chicken Pox....32......8
Moasles....1821..122
Scarlatina....14..1..924
Hooping Cough....251524....64
Croup........1....1
Diarrhoea222971113..1 64
Dysentery....1........1
Cholera................
Ague............11
Continued Fever....11..17..11*39
Puerperal Fever................
Rheumatic Fever5..51......13
Erysipelas....931....13
Diphtheria................
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....196112..38
Pyaemia................
Bronchitis and Catarrh23223149105361447
Pneumonia....3..7....10
Pleurisy........1....1
Delirium Tremens....1..1....2
Insanity....4....1..5
Carbuncle1..2..1....4
All other diseases50104664683625661418
Total8114842559549108292182

* All "Typhoid."