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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 1860
[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 are recorded in the Books of the Medical Officers of the Union, for the
Three Months ending on the 30th June, 1860.
| Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Continued Fever. (Typhus & Typhoid.) | Erysipelas. | Carbuncle. | Acute Pulmonary Inflammations. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Delirium Tremens. | All other Diseases. | Total. | Average number of Fever cases per Week. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleuritis and Pneumonia. | ||||||||||||||||
| Mr.Blackwell | 5 | 12 | 18 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 61 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 580 | 740 | |
| Mr.Champneys | 5 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 92 | 450 | |
| Mr. Richardson | 1 | 40 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 469 | |
| Mr. Sequeira | 3 | 167 | 6 | 5 | 32 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 73 | 31 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 374 | 1071 | |
| Total | 14 | 243 | 28 | 10 | 112 | 61 | 14 | 2 | 150 | 44 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 2020 | 2730 | 4-7 |