London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

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]

This page requires JavaScript

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 December, 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 December, 1860.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping CoughDiarrhoeaContinued Fever (Typhus and Typhoid.)Cholera.Erysipelas.Pyæmia.Puerperal Fever.Carbuncle.Acute Pulmonary Inflammations.Croup.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Dysentery.Delirium Tremens.DiphtheriaOther Diseases.Total.Average number of Fever cases per Week.
Bronchitis and Catarrh.Pneumonia and Pleuritis.
Mr. Blackwell82454296050011377001100461689
Mr. Champneys01904331102000144001400368460
Mr. Richardson1711721101001165000200458531
Mr. Sequeira01588519030007311004110774958
Total96514331342701100224027006810206126382
Total for the Quarter end-ing Mareh 313653272114478011012356571211700254933566
„ June, 3014243281011261014002150440317930202027304.7
„ Sept. 2961592419388341160039913227420189626682.6
,, year 1860655209383773190152019845141374128608526113923.6
„ „ 185924217917514620941117301116091394014773018469117017.7
» ,, 1858204271462309465900700216141121036166539175071171811.3
„ „ 1857626649150132414411645021917271669095328062311070827.7
,, ,, 18561157110598898192900000000000006284989737.1