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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: TABLE III.—Cases of Sickness of the Zymotic and Acute classes, which are recorded in the Books of the Medical Officers of the Unionfor the Three Months ending the 29th September, 1860.

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 the 29th September, 1860.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina,Hooping CoughDiarrhoea.Continued Fever (Typhus and Typhoid.)Cholera.Erysipelas.Pyæmia.Puerperal Fever.Carbuncle.Acute Pulmonary Inflammations.Croup.DiphtheriaRheumatic Fever.Ague.Dysentery.Delirium Tremens.Other Diseases.Total.Average number of Fever cases per Week.
Bronchitis and Catarrh.Pneumonia and Pleuritis.
Mr. Blackwell2219197307003482000010394588
Mr. Champneys0231693140400035000021421573
Mr. Bichardson0466371300000110001000416557
Mr. Sequeira469891221415000376201711665950
Total61592419383341160039913202742189626682.6