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 III.
NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIFTY-TWO WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 31ST DAY OF DECEMBER, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS.
Workhouse. | Infant Poor House. | Out Patient Paupers. | Holloway Dispensary. | Islington Dispensary. | Pentonville Convict Prison | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 2 | 1 | 69 | 8 | 6 | .. | 86 |
Chicken Pox | .. | .. | 41 | 35 | 13 | .. | 89 |
Measles | 6 | 41 | 422 | 104 | 146 | .. | 719 |
Scarlation | .. | .. | 1 72 | 68 | 53 | .. | 293 |
Whooping Cough | 2 | 8 | 160 | 90 | 54 | .. | 314 |
Croup | .. | .. | 23 | 22 | , , | .. | 45 |
Diarrhoea | 36 | .. | 770 | 370 | 146 | 45 | 1367 |
dysentery | 1 | .. | 5 | 4 | 1 | .. | 11 |
cholera | .. | .. | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | 9 |
Ague | 9. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 3 |
Continued Fever | 13 | .. | 99 | 112 | 37 | .. | 261 |
Rheumatic Fever | .. | . | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Erysipelas | 14 | .. | 20 | 30 | 25 | .. | 89 |
diptheria | 13 | .. | 68 | 36 | 25 | .. | 112 |
.. | .. | .. | 12 | 4 | .. | 16 | |
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis | 1 | .. | 260 | 213 | 91 | 4 | 569 |
Mumps | .. | . . | 6 | .. | .. | .. | 6 |
Pyremia | .. | . . | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
Bronchitis and Catarrh | 156 | 4 | 2458 | 998 | 762 | 325 | 4703 |
Pneumonia | 1 | .. | 43 | 44 | 28 | .. | 116 |
Pleurisy | .. | .. | 57 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 83 |
Delirium Tremens | 5 | .. | 9 | 2 | 1 | .. | 17 |
Insanity | 41 | .. | 37 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 83 |
Carbuncle | 2 | .. | 4 | 8 | 2 | .. | 16 |
All other Diseases | 467 | 116 | 6044 | 5100 | 6692 | 1359 | 19778 |
Total | 762 | 170 | 10775 | 7275 | 8098 | 1736 | 28816 |