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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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Table: TABLE III.NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIFTY-THREE WEEKS, ENDING SATURDAY, THE 2ND DAY OF JANUARY, 1864, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS.

TABLE III.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIFTY-THREE WEEKS, ENDING SATURDAY, THE 2ND DAY OF JANUARY, 1864, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out Patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Islington. Dispensary.Pentonville 1 Convict Prison.Total
Small Pox313798739...509
Chicken Pox...3442511...83
Measles2223912146...410
Scarlatina......377163132...672
Whooping Cough1331117787...579
Croup......3113......24
Diarrhoea44...849378209691549
Dysentery......25......7
Cholera.........1......1
Ague......451111
Continued Fever6...12120729...363
Puerperal Fever......11......2
Rheumatic Fever19...313930...119
Erysipelas4...10226311164
Diphtheria......621128
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis3...35423912124741
Mumps...211.........13
Pyeemia.....................
Bronchitis and Catarrh221127739748443445157
Pneumonia2...393029...100
Pleurisy......302125...76
Delirium Tremens3...241...10
Insanity27...3813372
Carbuncle1...766...20
All other Diseases531125664055197388151321716
Total8671371237180639033195532426