Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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. | 175 | 274 | 338 | 643 | 297 | 234 | 310 | 500 |
Zymotic diseases | 40 | 60 | 67 | 142 | 73 | 50 | 75 | 102 |
Tubercular diseases | 30 | 39 | 52 | 87 | 45 | 47 | 32 | 79 |
Deaths under 5 yrs. | 64 | 146 | 164 | 309 | 129 | 104 | 154 | 273 |
Phthisis | 21 | 38 | 58 | 36 | 29 | 26 | ||
Dis. of Org. of Res. | 21 | 69 | 62 | 146 | 55 | 47 | 71 | 110 |
Small Pox | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
Measles | 1 | 7 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 18 | ||
Scarlatina | 14 | 19 | 13 | 24 | 13 | 17 | 23 | |
Diptheria | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |||
Hooping Cough | 3 | 10 | 20 | 4 | ||||
Diarrhœa & Cholera | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 13 | |||
Fever | 1 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
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 | .. | 111 | 18 | 12 | 142 | 9 | ||
Chicken Pox | .. | 59 | 14 | 23 | .. | 96 | ||
Measles | 19 | 367 | 91 | 95 | .. | 572 | 12 | |
Scarlatina | .. | 1 | 123 | 60 | 69 | .. | 253 | 94 |
Hooping Cough | 4 | 1 | 152 | 56 | 91 | .. | 304 | |
Cough | .. | .. | 10 | 4 | .. | 14 | ||
Diarrhœa | 32 | 2 | 459 | 88 | 185 | 112 | 878 | .. |
Dysentery | .. | 18 | 4 | 4 | .. | 26 | ||
Cholera | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | |||
Ague | .. | 22 | 6 | 30 | .. | 58 | 8 | |
Countinued Fever | .. | 62 | 6 | 82 | .. | 152 | 113+ | |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | |
Rheumatic Fever | 16 | .. | 32 | 11 | 18 | .. | 77 | 6 |
Erysipelas | 2 | .. | 84 | 19 | 23 | .. | 128 | 6 |
Diphtheria | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 6 | .. | 8 | 2 |
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis | 1 | .. | 180 | 62 | 123 | 10 | 376 | |
Pyaemia | .. | .. | ||||||
Bronchitis and Catarrh | 167 | .. | 2492 | 727 | 805 | 325 | 4521 | 9 |
Pneumonia | 2 | .. | 58 | 11 | 39 | .. | 110 | 18 |
Pleurisy | .. | 29 | 2 | 3 | .. | 34 | 12 | |
Delirium Tremens | 6 | .. | 7 | .. | 1 | .. | 14 | 1 |
Insanity | 17 | .. | 40 | 3 | .. | 1 | 61 | .. |
Carbuncle | 3 | .. | 8 | 1 | 4 | .. | 16 | .. |
All other Diseases | 410 | 79 | 5260 | 7329 | 3486 | 693 | 17257 | .. |
Total | 660 | 110 | 9578 | 8507 | 5103 | 1142 | 25100 | 374 |
* " Typhoid." + Of these 26 were cases of " typhus" and 87 of " typhoid" fever.