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 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 | .. | .. | 16 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 102* | 123 |
Chicken Pox | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 6 |
Measles | .. | 2 | 5 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 10 |
Scarlatina | .. | .. | 13 | 14 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 37 |
Hooping Cough | .. | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 16 |
Croup | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 4 |
Diarrhœa | 2 | .. | 21 | 4 | 11 | 1 | .. | .. | 39 |
Dysentery | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Ague | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | 8† | .. | 13 |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Rheumatic Fever | 4 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 6 |
Erysipelas | .. | .. | 8 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 9 |
Diphtheria | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis | .. | .. | 15 | 2 | 12 | .. | .. | .. | 29 |
Pyæmia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Bronchitis and Catarrh | 16 | .. | 301 | 83 | 88 | 24 | .. | .. | 512 |
Pneumonia | .. | .. | 6 | 2 | 3 | .. | 2 | .. | 13 |
Pleurisy | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 |
Delirium Tremens | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Insanity | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Carbuncle | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
All other diseases | 33 | 4 | 398 | 667 | 256 | 38 | 5 | .. | 1401 |
Total | 56 | 7 | 806 | 784 | 392 | 64 | 23 | 102 | 2234 |
* Six of these were from Islington, but two of thorn are also reckoned among the " Out-Patient Paupers "
† One " Typhus " and Seven " Typhold."