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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 1859
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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for the Three Months that ended on the 2nd APRIL, 1859:—
| DISTRICTS. | Names of Medical Officers. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus, or Continued Fever. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Pyaemia. | Puerperal Fever. | Carbuncle. | Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pneumonia and Pleuritis. | Croup. | Diphtheria. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Delirium Tremens. | Other Diseases. | Total. | Average number of Fever Cases per W eek. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spitalfields | Mr. Blackwell | 11 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 27 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 113 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | ? | 0 | 693 | 805 | |
| Mile End New Town | Mr. Champneys | 12 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 48 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 357 | 455 | |
| Whitechapel | Mr. Richardson | 19 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 432 | 506 | |
| Goodman's Fields | Mr. Sequeira | 2 | 4 | 8 | 58 | 38 | 24 | 0 | 11 | 0 | l | 0 | 56 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 902 | 1170 | |
| Totals | 44 | 13 | 28 | 74 | 88 | 93 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 201 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 2384 | 2936 | 7 | |
| DISTRICTS. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Grand Total. | Grand Total. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | 1859. | 1858 | |
| Artillery | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 . | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 5 |
| *Spitalfields | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 16 |
| †Mile End New Town | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 26 |
| †Whitechapel, North | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 22 |
| ‡Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 11 |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 10 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 18 | |
| 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 42 | 44 | 86 | 108 | |
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter of last year. | 8 | 5 | 15 | 32 | 2 | 24 | 86 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | 7 | 37 | 14 | 32 | 108 | ||||||||||
*In the Spitalfields District two Cases of DIPHTHERIA (Males) are recorded.
†Two Cases of CHILD-BED FEVER are recorded; one in the Mile End New Town District, the other in the Whitechapel North.
‡Three of the Cases of FEVER recorded in this District were non-residents.