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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 1868

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

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Table: TABLE II.NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIFTY THREE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 2nd DAY OF JANUARY, 1869, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:—

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIFTY THREE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 2nd DAY OF JANUARY, 1869, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:—

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out Patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Islington Dispensary.Pentonville Convict PrisonTotal.
Small Fox5..134367..182
Chicken Pax..2546739..162
Measles210411268147..838
Scarlatina28206158120..494
Whooping Cough115250173229..668
Croup....121214..38
Diarrhoea87..9776515562142485
Dysentery2..398..22
Cholera....4217
Ague4..671..18
Continued Fever30..1047669..287
Influenza............
Puerperal Fever.....7..1..8
Rheumatic Fever2..152235..74
Erysipelas8..1024641..197
Diphtheria....51210..27
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis7..237351355..950
Mumps....19..10..29
Pyaemia..............
Bronchitis and Catarrh23862982151915556586958
Pneumonia31506052..166
Pleurisy2..6049311143
Delirium Tremens8..713..19
Insanity46..67361123
Carbuncle211185..27
All other Diseases713222710073359181260427155
Total1162273128231086512476347841077