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 UNDEIl TREATMENT DURING THE ^IVE WERKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 26th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1868, AT 1HE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:—
Workhouse. | Infant Poor House. | Out Patient Paupers. | Holloway Dispensary. | Islington Dispensary. | Pentonville Convict Prison | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Chicken Pox | 4 | .. | |||||
Measles | .. | 51 | 33 | 5 | .. | 89 | |
Scarlatina | .. | 27 | 7 | .. | 48 | ||
Whooping Cough | .. | .. | 14 | 9 | 2 | .. | 25 |
Croup | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 4 |
Diarrhœa | 10 | .. | 124 | 73 | 54 | 33 | 294 |
Dysentery | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Ague | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 5 | ||
Continued Fever | .. | 4 | 14 | 8 | .. | 34 | |
Influenza | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Rheumatic Fever | .. | .. | 5 | .. | 3 | .. | 8 |
Erysipelas | 3 | .. | 9 | 7 | 4 | .. | 23 |
Diphtheria | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | ||
Screthroat of Tonsillitis | 1 | .. | 36 | 46 | 52 | .. | 135 |
Mumps | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | ||
Pyæmia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Bronchitis and Catarrh | .. | 228 | 96 | 66 | .. | 459 | |
Pneumonia | .. | .. | 4 | 3 | 3 | .. | 10 |
Pleurisy | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | 13 | ||
Delirium Tremens | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | |||
Insanity | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 12 | |
Carbuncle | .. | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | 5 | |
All other Diseases | 69 | 23 | 679 | 685 | 938 | 313 | 2707 |
Total | 108 | 29 | 987 | 1148 | 394 | 3887 |
TABLE III.
HOUSES INSPECTED AND SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS EFFECTED, From August 31st, 1868, to October 3rd, 1868.
South East District. | South West District. | North District. | Total. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of houses inspected | 67 | 144 | 104 | 315 | |
Drains | Construted | 6 | 6 | ||
Improved or repaired | 9 | 12 | 8 | 29 | |
Traps fixed | 15 | 7 | 14 | 36 | |
Cesspools | Abolished | 9 | 1 | 10 | |
Cleansed or disnfacted | 1 | .. | 1 | ||
Privies and Water Closets | Pan, trap, and water supply furnished | 10 | 1 | 11 | |
Pan and trap only furnished | 3 | .. | 2 | 5 | |
Water supply furnished | 11 | 11 | 15 | 37 | |
Dust bins | Constructed | .. | 15 | 15 | |
Repaired and covers adapted | .. | 5 | 21 | 26 | |
Surface Drains and Pavements of Yards | Constructed | 10 | .. | .. | 10 |
Relaid | 19 | 13 | 13 | 45 | |
General Water Supply | New receptacle provided | 11 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
Receptacle repaired and cleansed | 9 | 13 | 9 | 31 | |
Water supply provided | 10 | 10 | |||
Other Improvements | Houses generally repaired | 15 | 7 | 1 | 23 |
„ cleansed or limewashed | 47 | 32 | 13 | 92 | |
„ ventilated | 10 | .. | .. | 10 | |
Overcrowding abated | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | |
Illegal use of underground Rooms for sleeping discontinued | 1 | 1 | |||
Other Amendments | 5 | 6 | 11 | 22 |