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Islington 1869

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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Table: TABLE II.NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIFTY-TWO WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 1st DAY OF JANUARY, 1870, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:—

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIFTY-TWO WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 1st DAY OF JANUARY, 1870, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:—

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out Patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Islington Dispensary.Pentonville Convict PrisonTotal.
Small Pox2..31142..49
Chicken Pox..55671111..243
Measles....12475163..362
Scarlatina1..253114346..714
Whooping Cough87245386368..1014
Croup....21317..32
Diarhœa64..3575446402361841
Dysentery....51140..56
Cholera......12..3
Ague2..245..13
Continued Fever12..102*111113..338
Influenza..............
Puerperal Fever....323..8
Rheumatic Fever2..41839..63
Erysipelas20..704746..183
Diphtheria......143..17
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis421182894791893
Mumps....14..14..28
Pyæmia....1......1
Bronchitis and Catarrh31642060179223188007290
Pneumonia216743781192
Pleurisy1..607666..203
Delirium Tremns11..1411..27
Insanity48..69311122
Carbuncle....4417126
All other Diseases772197459868018506212322997
Total1265216825910,43413378316336715

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•Thirty-four of these cases were "Relapsing Fever."