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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TABLE V.
NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE YEAR ENDING SATURDAY, THE 27th DAY OF DECEMBER, 18C2, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:—
Workhouse. | Infant Poor House. | Out Patient Paupers. | Islington Dispensary. | Holloway Dispensary. | Pentonville Convict Prison | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | ... | ... | 61 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 80 |
Chicken Pox | ... | 3 | 38 | 14 | 31 | ... | 86 |
Measles | ... | ... | 478 | 66 | 196 | ... | 740 |
Scarlatina | ... | 1 | 226 | 52 | 42 | ... | 321 |
Whooping Cough | 5 | ... | 170 | 47 | 82 | ... | 304 |
Croup | ... | ... | 12 | ... | 6 | ... | 18 |
Diarrhœa | 39 | ... | 619 | 137 | 267 | 75 | 1137 |
Dysentery | ... | ... | 21 | 6 | 4 | ... | 31 |
Cholera | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 |
Ague | ... | ... | 5 | ... | 5 | 1 | 11 |
Continued Fever | 21 | ... | 126 | 50 | 151 | ... | 348 |
Puerperal Fever | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 4 | ... | 5 |
Rheumatic Fever | 14 | ... | 31 | 22 | 30 | 2 | 99 |
Erysipelas | 4 | ... | 101 | 32 | 30 | ... | 167 |
Diptheria | ... | ... | 4 | 4 | 16 | ... | 24 |
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis | 4 | 1 | 277 | 79 | 221 | 4 | 586 |
Pyæmia | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Bronchitis and Catarrh | 176 | 1 | 2595 | 580 | 873 | 435 | 4660 |
Pneumonia | 3 | ... | 4 | 15 | 30 | 2 | 54 |
Pleurisy | ... | ... | 26 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 44 |
Delirium Tremens | 6 | ... | 1 | 1 | 3 | ... | 11 |
Insanity | 20 | ... | 48 | ... | 3 | 1 | 72 |
Carbuncle | ... | ... | 11 | 4 | 5 | ... | 20 |
All other diseases | 505 | 130 | 6148 | 6990 | 4940 | 1479 | 20192 |
Total | 798 | 136 | 11002 | 8108 | 6966 | 2001 | 29011 |