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, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE
Workhouse. | Infant Poor House. | Out Patient Paupers. | Holloway Dispensary. | Islington Dispensary. | Pentonville Convict Prison | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | .. | .. | 1 | .. | |||
Chicken Pox | .. | .. | |||||
Measles | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Scarlatina | .. | .. | 4 | .. | |||
Whooping Cough | .. | .. | |||||
Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Diarrhoea | .. | ||||||
Dysentery | .. | .. | |||||
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Ague | 1 | .. | • • | .. | |||
4 | .. | ||||||
Influenza | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
.. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Rheumatic Fever | .. | • • | .. | ||||
Erysipelas | .. | .. | |||||
Diphtheria | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
.. | .. | ||||||
Mumps | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Pyæmia | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Bronchitis and Catarrh | .. | 56 | |||||
Pneumonia | .. | .. | |||||
Pleurisy | .. | .. | |||||
.. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Insanity | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Carbuncle | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
All other Diseases | |||||||
Total |
South East District. | South "West District. | North District. | Total. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Drains | .. | ||||
Traps fixed | |||||
Cesspools | Abolished | .. | |||
.. | .. | .. | |||
.. | |||||
Pan and trap only furnished | .. | ||||
Water supply furnished | |||||
Constructed | |||||
Repaired and covers adapted | |||||
Constructed | |||||
Relaid | |||||
New receptacle provided | |||||
Receptacle repaired and cleansed | |||||
Water supply provided | .. | .. | |||
Houses generally repaired | |||||
„ cleansed or limewashed | |||||
„ ventilated | |||||
Overcrowding abated | .. | ||||
.. | |||||