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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1861

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

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Table: TABLE II.NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 30th DAY OF MARCH, 1861, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 30th DAY OF MARCH, 1861, 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....521....8
Chicken Pox..2..15....8
Measles..51952....31
Scarlatina....3..7..818
Hooping cough....25920....54
Croup....3........3
Diarrhoea2..293256..65
Dysentery....3........3
Cholera................
Ague........1....1
Continued Fever....5..9..1327
Puerperal Fever................
Rheumatic Fever3..323..314
Erysipeals....12..1....13
Diphtheria................
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....25510..141
Pyæmia................
Bronchitis and Catarrh7..1966180402386
Pneumonia........2..24
Pleurisy....521....8
Delirium Tremens................
Insanity5..4........9
Carbuncle................
All other diseases43749063551410461799
Total6014827725681150352492