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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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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 27th June, 1863.
| Names of Medical Officers. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Continued Fever (Typhus and Typhoid.) | Carbuncle. | Erysipelas. | Acute Pulmonary Inflammations. | Croup. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Delirium Tremens. | All other Diseases. | Total. | Average number of Fever cases per Week. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pneumonia and Pleuritis. | |||||||||||||||||
| Mr. Blackwell | 33 | 7 | 29 | 13 | 44 | 45 | 1 | 4 | 78 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 695 | 961 | |
| Mr. Champneys | 16 | 1 | 13 | 12 | 29 | 44 | — | 6 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 508 | 676 | |
| Mr. Richardson | 27 | 2 | 30 | 4 | 33 | 4 | — | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 667 | 776 | |
| Mr. Sequiera | 24 | 16 | 8 | 37 | 61 | 30 | — | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 852 | 1049 | |
| Total | 100 | 26 | 80 | 66 | 167 | 123 | 1 | 16 | 106 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 2722 | 3462 | 94 |
Of the 100 cases of Small pox 58 are recorded as having been previously vaccinated, 29 as not having been vaccinated and of the remainder there is no record as regards vaccination.