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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 Union, for the Three Months ending on the 31st March, 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 on the 31st March, 1860.

Small Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping Cough.Diarrhoea.Continued Fever. (Typhus & Typhoid.)Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever.Carbuncle.Acute Pulmonary Inflammations.Croup.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Dy sentry.All other Diseases.Total,Average number of Fever cases per Week.
Bronchitis and Catarrh.Pleuritis and Pneumonia.
Mr. Blackwell181717046940112530011621863
Mr. Champneys6142827212101560000509611
Mr. Richardson2174823190005010040464592
Mr. Sequeira1054548295011664712669551290
Total365327211447811123565712117254933566