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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
Whitechapel 1856
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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By the tables of mortality and sickness that I have appended to this report, an
idea will be formed of the state of the public health among the poor of your district.
Hitherto I have been able only to procure returns of sickness from the books of the
Medical Officers of the Union, and from Mr. Temple, the resident Medical Officer
of the Eastern Dispensary. No record of cases is kept at the London Dispensary in
Spitalfields. If the officers of the Public Medical Charities in the district, and private
Medical Practitioners would kindly furnish me with an account of the cases of zymotic
diseases which came under their notice, a tolerably accurate knowledge of the state of
the public health would be obtained, and I should feel greatly obliged to every gentleman
who will give me information upon this important subject.
| Ending | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough | Diarrhœa. | Fever. | Other Zymotic Diseases | Total Zymotic Diseases. | Other Cases of Illess. | Total. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 27th. | M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total. | 31 | 219 | 104 | 397 | 427 | 824 |
| 10 | 7 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||||||
| June 27th. | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 37 | 200 | 86 | 346 | 509 | 855 |
| Scptem. 27th. | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 176 | 226 | 71 | 492 | 413 | 905 | |
| Decem. 27 th. | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 47 | *139 | 69 | 277 | 506 | 783 | |||
| Totals. | 17 | 13 | 30 | 10 | 16 | 26 | 10 | 19 | 29 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 291 | 784 | 330 | 1512 | 1955 | 3367 |
| *14 Cases occurred in Grey Eagle Street, and 12 in Quaker Street. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ending | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough | Diarrhœa. | Fever. | Other Zymoic Distases. | Total Zymotic Diseases. | Other Cases of Illness. | Total. | ||||||||
| March 27th. | M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total | M | F. | Total. | 25 | 116 | 26 | 229 | 609 | 838 |
| 11 | 12 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 26 | |||||||
| June 27th. | 4 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 25 | 94 | 31 | 190 | 609 | 799 |
| Septem. 27 th. | 7 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 172 | 77 | 71 | 358 | 532 | 890 |
| Decern. 27th. | 11 | 11 | 22 | 11 | 16 | 27 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 37 | 64 | 88 | 244 | 602 | 846 | |||
| Totals | 22 | 23 | 45 | 19 | 19 | 38 | 30 | 39 | 69 | 20 | 24 | 44 | 259 | 351 | 216 | 1021 | 2352 | 3373 |