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 25th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1860, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Islington Dispensary.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Convict Prison.London Fever Hospital.Small Pox Hospital.Total.
Small Pox....161211102*123
Chicken Pox....114......6
Measles..253........10
Scarlatina....13143......37
Hooping Cough..1645......16
Croup....3..1......4
Diarrhœa2..214111....39
Dysentery......2........2
Cholera..................
Ague....1..1......2
Continued Fever....311..8†..13
Puerperal Fever....1..........1
Rheumatic Fever4..1..1......6
Erysipelas....8..1......9
Diphtheria....1..2......3
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....15212......29
Pyæmia..................
Bronchitis and Catarrh16..301838824....512
Pneumonia....623..2..13
Pleurisy....5..........5
Delirium Tremens..................
Insanity1..............1
Carbuncle....1..1......2
All other diseases334398667256385..1401
Total56780678439264231022234

* Six of these were from Islington, but two of thorn are also reckoned among the " Out-Patient Paupers "
† One " Typhus " and Seven " Typhold."