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Islington 1871

[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 FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 1st DAY OF APRIL, 1871, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:—

TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 1st DAY OF APRIL, 1871, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:—

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out Patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Islington Dispensary.Pentonville Conviot PrisonTotal.
Small Pox....1552023..198
Chicken Pox......318..21
Measles....21....3
Scarlatina....4311..18
Whooping Cough....19238..50
Croup......26..8
Diarrhœa....162118762
Dysentery........3..3
Cholera..............
Ague....1..1..2
Continued Fever..161418..39
Influenza..............
Puerperal Fever..............
Rheumatic Fever....2..2..4
Erysipelas....753..15
Diphtheria....11....2
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....151438..67
Mumps....2..2..4
Pyæmia..............
Bronchitis and Catarrh..119225032645814
Pneumonia....467..17
Pleurisy....7916..32
Delirium Tremens..............
Insanity....5......5
Carbuncle........4..4
All other Diseases..174667528971012233
Total..19904112414011533601

Table: TABLE III.HOUSES INSPECTED AND SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS EFFECTED. From February 27th, 1871, to March 25th, 1871.

TABLE III.

HOUSES INSPECTED AND SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS EFFECTED. From February 27th, 1871, to March 25th, 1871.

South East District.South West District.North District.Total.
*Number of houses inspected10219987388
DrainsConstructed....22
Improved or repaired25..7
Traps fixed34..7
CesspoolsAbolished........
Cleansed or disinfected........
Privies and Water ClosetsPan, trap, and water supply furnished1....1
Pan and trap only furnished..1..1
Water supply furnished....11
Dust binsConstructed1....1
Repaired and covers adapted....11
Surface Drains and Pavements of YardsConstructed........
Relaid14..5
General Water SupplyNew receptacles provided........
Receptacles repaired and cleansed....11
Water supply provided........
Other ImprovementsHouses generally repaired1..78
„ &c., cleansed or limewashed194744110
„ ventilated........
Overcrowding abated........
Illegal use of underground Rooms for sleeping discontinued........
Other Amendments, or Nuisances abated2495101

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*Inspections, Disinfections, Turnings, Sc., in connection with the Small-Pox Epidemic, and the necessary
attention to complaints have engrossed more than the ordinary time of the Inspectors to the unavoidable neglect
of much other sanitary work