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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 1863
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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The numbers of cases which have occurred in the practice of the
Parochial Surgeons and Dispensaries amount, however, to 32, an
increase of 7 upon the number recorded last month. The localities in
which they occurred are chiefly the sanitary districts of Ball's-pond,
Queen's-road, and Bemerton.
Scarlet Fever has occasioned 21 deaths, chiefly about the Caledonian-road
and Hornsey-road. The monthly deaths from Measles have
fallen from 12 to 7, and the cases from 41 to 21.
EDW A.RD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer Health.
Vestry Offices,
March '2nd, 1863.