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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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TABLE III.—Cases of Sickness of the Zymotic and acute classes, which were recorded in the Books of the Medical Officers of the Union for the Three Months that ended on the 2nd July, 1859.
| Districts. | Names of Medical Officers. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough | Diarrhoea. | Typhus or continued Fever. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Pya:mis. | Puerperal Fever. | Carbuncle. | Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pneumonia and Pleuritis. | Croup. | Diphtheria | ' Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Other Diseases. | Total. | Average number of Fever cases per Week. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spitalfields | Mr. Blackwell | 24 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 76 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 85 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 509 | 733 | |
| Mile End New Town | Mr. Champneys | 14 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 18 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9. | 1 | 387 | 480 | |
| Whitechapel | Mr. Richardson | 40 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 404 | 502 | |
| Goodman's Fields | Mr. Sequeira | 18 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 66 | 66 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 764 | 1027 | |
| Totals | 96 | 18 | 28 | 43 | 178 | 114 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 119 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 9 | 2064 | 2742 | 7 |
TABLE IV.— Table showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 2nd July, 1859.
| Districts. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea | 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | a | 5 | 8 |
| Spitalfields | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 21 |
| Mile End New Town | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 26 |
| *Whitechapel, North | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 17 |
| Whitechapel Church Goodman's Fields | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 15 | |
| Aldgate | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 38 | .30 | 68 | 106 | |
| 13 | 1 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 19 | 68 | ||||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter of last year. | 1 | 37 | 9 | 26 | 13 | 20 | 106 | |||||||||
* Three of the cases of Fever in this District were non-residents. Four cases of Diphtheria are recorded, viz : 1 in the Whitechapel Church District,
2 in the Aldgate, and 1 in the Goodman's Fields. Five cases of Child Bed Fever are recorded, viz : 2 in Spitalfields, 2 in Goodman's Fields, and 1 in
Mile End New Town.