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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A cheap and effectual disinfectant also, which might he readily prepared for distribution to the poor, consists in sand or marl, or dry plaster well mixed with a small quantity of coal-tar.
July. | Mean Temperature. (Greenwich.) | Parish cases of Diarrhœa, &c. | Deaths from Diarrhœa and Cholera. | |||||||||||||||
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1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | I860 | 1861 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | |
1st week | 59.2° | 596° | 55.9° | 67.4° | 58.5° | 59.7° | 19 | 34 | 22 | 47 | 4 | 34 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 3 | |
end „ | 57.6° | 68.0° | 66.4° | 71.0° | 57.4° | 61.5° | 25 | 38 | 30 | 76 | 15 | 30 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 8 |
3rd „ | 60.1° | 68.3° | 62.9° | 69.0° | 59.0° | 61.5° | 22 | 94 | 27 | 118 | 21 | 29 | 4 | 20 | 5 | 20 | 0 | 9 |
4th „ | 64.2° | 65.6° | 59.6° | 67.0° | 55.6° | 61.1° | 31 | 88 | 29 | 108 | 14 | 68 | 3 | 20 | 13 | 17 | 1 | 8 |
60.2° | 65.3° | 61.2° | 68.6° | 57.6° | 60.9° | 95 | 254 | 108 | 349 | 54 | 161 | 10 | 54 | 30 | 56 | 7 | 29 |
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
August 5th, 1861