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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: TABLEIV.NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE YEAR ENDING SATURDAY, THE 28th DAY OF DECEMBER, 1SG1, AT T1IE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS.

TABLEIV.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE YEAR ENDING SATURDAY, THE 28th DAY OF DECEMBER, 1SG1, AT T1IE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out Patient Paupers.Islington Dispensary.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Convict PrisonTotal.London Fever Hospital.
Small Pox....1953..274
Chicken Pox..850925..922
Measles2251413388..2894
Scarlatina..81704459..231160
Whooping Cough1430462158..529..
Croup....1212..15..
Diarrhœa16189017342213916416
Dysentery1..35811..55..
Cholera....3..5..8..
Ague1..5114..214
Continued Fever4..12532123..284228
Puerperal Fever....1......11
Rheumatic Fever23..392921..11211
Erysipelas4..1002323..1501
Diphtheria....434..11..
Sorethbroat or Tonsillitis..12916614635075
Pyæmia............11
Bronchitis and Catarrh13932051540733502396824
Pneumonia1222234..612S
Pleurisy....4098..576
Delirium Tremens1..32....6..
Insanity30..301....611
Carbuncle....1331..17..
All other Diseases50458612067555002136819807106
Total7271101046878016882201228000592