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 Shoreditch]
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TABLE IV.
Shewing the number of cases of Epidemic diseases admitted under the care of th< District Medical Officers, during the thirteen weeks ending 27th December, 1856.
DISTRICT. | MEDICAL OFFICER | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough, | Diarrhoea. | Typhus. | Total of Epidemics. | Total Cases of Sickness of all kinds. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Church End North | Mr. Greenwood | ... | 19 | 11 | ... | ... | 53 | 83 | 552 |
Church End South | Dr. Burchell | 5 | 5 | 12 | ... | 24 | 54 | 101 | 718 |
Iloxton | Mr. Coward | 1 | 18 | 25 | ... | 15 | 25 | 84 | 628 |
Workhouse | Mr. Clark | .. | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 21 | 24 | 719 |
Holywell & Moorfields | Mr. Collier | ... | ... | ... | No Return. | ... | ... | ||
6 | 42 | 48 | ... | 43 | 153 | 292 | 2617 |
The facts aggregated in this Table shew the sickness from zymotic diseases
observed by the District Medical Officers, and the proportion of cases of this character
to the cases of all kinds which came under their care.
The following Table V. exhibits the total number of admissions into the Workhouse, with the number of admissions on account of sickness week by week.
October. | November. | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4th. | 11th. | 18th. | 25th. | 1st. | 8th. | 15 th. | 22nd. | 29th. | ||||||
Total Admissions | 41 | 25 | 42 | 37 | 40 | 38 | 19 | 44 | 23 | |||||
Admissions from Sickness | 13 | 19 | 18 | 21 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 19 | 10 | |||||
6th. | 13th. | 20th. | 27th. | |||||||||||
Total Admissions | 29 | 26 | 15 | 38 | ||||||||||
Admissions from Sickness | 14 | 14 | 7 | 16 |
These admissions include 30 cases of zymotic diseases, and 20 cases of insanity.