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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NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING- THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 23rd DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1867, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:—
Workhouse. | Infant Poor House. | Out Patient Paupers. | Holloway Dispensary. | Islington Dispensary. | Pentonville Convict Prison | Total. | |
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Small Pox | . . | . . | 14 | 10 | . . | . . | 24 |
Chicken Pox | . . | . . | 2 | 3 | 2 | . . | 7 |
Measles | . . | . . | 27 | 8 | . . | . . | 35 |
Scarlatina | 2 | . . | 28 | 35 | 6 | . . | 71 |
Whooping Cough | 8 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 8 | . . | 38 |
Croup | . . | . . | . . | 1 | . . | . . | 1 |
Diarrhœa | . . | . . | 35 | 21 | 6 | 8 | 70 |
Dysentery | . . | . . | . . | 1 | . . | . . | 1 |
Cholera | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Ague | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Continued Fever | 1 | . . | 5 | 7 | 3 | . . | 16 |
Influenza | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Puerperal Fever | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Rheumatic Fever | . . | . . | 1 | 1 | 4 | . . | 6 |
Erysipelas | 1 | . . | 3 | 3 | 6 | . . | 13 |
Diphtheria | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis | 2 | . . | 22 | 12 | 11 | . . | 47 |
Mumps | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Pyaemia | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Bronchitis and Catarrh | 25 | 1 | 329 | 192 | 95 | 34 | 676 |
Pneumonia | . . | . . | 10 | 8 | 4 | . . | 22 |
Pleurisy | . . | . . | 4 | 1 | 4 | . . | 9 |
Delirium Tremens | 1 | . . | 2 | . . | . . | . . | 3 |
Insanity | . . | . . | 3 | . . | . . | . . | 3 |
Carbuncle | . . | 1 | . . | . . | . . | . . | 1 |
All other Diseases | 49 | 14 | 496 | 534 | 538 | 139 | 1770 |
Total | 89 | 18 | 986 | 852 | 687 | 181 | 2813 |
HOUSES INSPECTED AND SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS EFFECTED, From Otober 28th, 1867, to November 23rd, 1867.
South West District. | South East District. | North District. | Total. | ||
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*Number of houses inspected | 138 | 72 | 159 | 369 | |
Drains | Constructed | 4 | 14 | 1 | 19 |
Improved or repaired | 12 | 16 | 4 | 32 | |
Traps fixed | 9 | 48 | 15 | 32 | |
Cesspools | Abolished | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Cleansed or disinfected | . . | . . | . . | . . | |
Privies and Water Closets | Pan, trap, and water supply furnished | 1 | . . | . . | 1 |
Pan and trap only furnished | 2 | 19 | 1 | 22 | |
Water supply furnished | 10 | 13 | . . | 23 | |
Dust bins | Constructed | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
Repaired and covers adapted | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
Surface Drains and Pavements of Yards | Constructed | . . | . . | 3 | 3 |
Relaid | 18 | 9 | 13 | 40 | |
General Water Supply | New receptacle provided | 4 | 2 | . . | 6 |
Receptacle repaired and cleansed | 13 | 10 | 4 | 27 | |
Water supply provided | . . | . . | . . | . . | |
Other Improve- ments | Houses generally repaired | 6 | . . | 14 | 20 |
,, cleansed or limewashed | 11 | 48 | 19 | 78 | |
,, ventilated | . . | . . | . . | . . | |
Overcrowding abated | 2 | 1 | . . | 3 | |
Illegal use of underground Rooms for sleeping discontinued | . . | . . | . . | . . |
*The whole of the Bakehouses (198) have been again inspected, but not included in the above.