London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Islington 1861

[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 26th DAY OF JANUARY, 1861, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Islington Dispensary.Holloway Dispensary.Pantonville Convict Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small pox....1......12
Chicken Pox....51......6
Measles....15..2....17
Scarlatina....7..3..919
Hooping Cough....37828....73
Croup....1........1
Diarrhoea....19578140
Dysentery....5..1....6
Cholera................
Ague................
Continued Fever....9..7..9*25
Puerperal Fever................
Rheumatic Fever....635..216
Erysipelas....962....17
Diphtheria........1....1
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....13583..29
Pyaemia................
Bronchitis and Catarrh27..2877586462523
Pneumonia........3..25
Pleurisy....4..2....6
Delirium Tremens................
Insanity1..2........3
Carbuncle....3........3
All other diseases5494384583327941374
Total829861561487136302166

* 8 " Typhoid," and 1 " Typhus."