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Islington 1865

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]

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TABLE IV.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIFTY-TWO WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 30 TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1865, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS, WITH THE TOTALS FOR EACH YEAR FROM 1860 ONWARDS.

1860.1861.1862.1863.*1864.Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out Patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Islington Dispensary.Pentonville Convict PrisonTotal.
142278050986Small Fox31116335192222
9692868389Chicken Pox....55214..80
672289740410719Measles551494414..217
253281321672293Scarlatina....19210640..338
304529304579314Whooping Cough2634019797..642
1415182445Croup....8121..21
8781641113715491367Diarrhœa301784472172521511
266531711Dysentery....75....12
18119Cholera....12....3
582111113Ague1..76....14
152284348363261Continued Fever11..10415327..295
2162..Puerperal Fever1..14....6
771129911989Rheumatic Fever19..1965341138
128150167164142Erysipelas7..814719..154
811242816Diphtheria....6137..25
376507536741569Sorethroat or Tonsillitis1..2022141187542
Not specially noted.136Mumps....12......12
..1Pyæmia..............
45213968466051574703Bronchitis and Catarrh1564241110806423144607
1106154100116Pneumonia31363035..105
3457447683Pleurisy1..5826202107
146111017Delirium Tremens15..161....32
6161727283Insanity42..713..3119
1617202016Carbuncle....78..620
1725719807201922171619778All other Diseases486124574061265920148019876
2510028000290113242628816Total7831411046986707174186129098

* Includes fifty-three weeks. No correction is made for this,