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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 1863
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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APPENDIX.
TABLE I.—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 28th March, 1863.
| Names of Medical Officers. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Continued Fever, (Typhus and Typhoid.) | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Pyaemia. | Puerperal Fever. | Carbuncle. | AcutePulmonary Inflammations. | Croup. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Delirium Tremens. | Diphtheria. | All other Diseases. | Total. | Average number of Fever cases per Week | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleuritis and Pneumonia. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Mr. Blackwell | 42 | 10 | 8 | 26 | 39 | 36 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 91 | 21 | .. | 6 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 759 | 1043 | |
| Mr. Champneys | 13 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 5 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 21 | 4 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 570 | 651 | |
| Mr. Richardson | 15 | .. | 8 | 3 | 28 | 5 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 24 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 678 | 767 | |
| Mr. Sequeira | 33 | 23 | 11 | 8 | 37 | 30 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 30 | 13 | 7 | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | 945 | 1146 | |
| Total | 103 | 34 | 31 | 40 | 129 | 76 | .. | 12 | .. | .. | .. | 166 | 40 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | .. | 2952 | 3607 | 5.8 |