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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 1884

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

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Table: The following table of 590 cases of Small-pox (including 110 fatal cases), shows the farther progress of the epidemic during the first six months of 1885.

The following table of 590 cases of Small-pox (including 110 fatal cases), shows the farther progress of the epidemic during the first six months of 1885.

Sickness.Deaths.
1885 January17028
„ February13327
„ March8117
April5010
„ May7011
„ June8617
Cases 590Deaths 110

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In connection with the epidemic of small-pox I give here a report made
by the Sanitary Committee, and adopted by the Vestry, upon the question
of the reception and treatment of persons suffering from small-pox or
other infectious diseases at the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
for the reason that some of the topics on which it treats have been for some
years the subject of discussion.