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Islington 1860

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]

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TABLE III.

Showing the Number of Deaths registered in each Ward, distinguishing those from certain important Diseases and Classes of Disease.

[Omitting Deaths in the Workhouse and Infant Poor-house, and such Deaths as could not be correctly referred to the Ward in which they occurred.]

Ward 1.Ward 2-Ward 3.Ward 4.Ward 5.Ward 6.Ward 7,Ward 8.
All Causes.175274338643297234310500
Zymotic diseases406067142735075102
Tubercular diseases3039528745473279
Deaths under 5 yrs.64146164309129104154273
Phthisis1621385836292662
Dis. of Org. of Res.216962146554771110
Small Pox300102017
Measles1872815161418
Scarlatina1419132413121723
Diptheria23863048
Hooping Cough381020114811
Diarrhœa & Cholera777167101113
Fever1987143312

TABLE IV.

New Cases of Disease coming under Treatment during the Year ending Saturday the 29th day of December, 1860, at the following Institutions:—

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out Patient Paupers.Islington Dispensary.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Convict Prison.Total.London Fever Hospital.
Small Pox....111181211429
Chicken Pox....591423..96..
Measles..193679195..57212
Scarlatina..11236069..25394
Hooping Cough411525691..304..
Cough....10..4..14..
Diarrhœa32245988185112878..
Dysentery....1844..26..
Cholera....1......1..
Ague....22630..588
Countinued Fever....62682..152113+
Puerperal Fever....2......21
Rheumatic Fever16..321118..776
Erysipelas2..841923..1286
Diphtheria....2..6..82
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis1..1806212310376..
Pyaemia................
Bronchitis and Catarrh167..249272780532545219
Pneumonia2..581139..11018
Pleurisy....2923..3412
Delirium Tremens6..7..1..141
Insanity17..403..161..
Carbuncle3..814..16..
All other Diseases4107952607329348669317257..
Total660110957885075103114225100374

* " Typhoid." + Of these 26 were cases of " typhus" and 87 of " typhoid" fever.