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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 FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 23rd DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1861, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 23rd DAY OF FEBRUARY, 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....1......12
Chicken pox..2....2....4
Measles..11113....16
Scarlatina....416..1223
Hooping Cough1..281017....56
Croup........1....1
Diarrhoea....245102..41
Dysentery....41......5
Cholera................
Ague........1....1
Continued Fever....10..9..12*31
Puerperal Fever................
Rheumatic Fever3..531..113
Erysipelas....51......6
Diphtheria................
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....9312....24
Pyæmia............11
Bronchitis and Catarrh15..1846979203370
Pneumonia........2..13
Pleurisy....21....14
Delirium Tremens................
Insanity1............1
Carbuncle....1........1
11 other diseases48650853737271141556
Total68979663251593462159

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*9 "Typhoid," 3 "Typhus.''