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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 1864

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: A P P E M D 1 X.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 on the 2nd July, 1864.

A P P E M D 1 X.

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 on the 2nd July, 1864.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid.Cholera.Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever.Carbuncle.Acute Pulmonary Inflammation.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. Blackwell045887028—4—08140200——592842
Mr. Champneys1121205722-7-13820002--379542
Mr. Richardson1561819518—4—01630000——699875
Mr. Sequiera1760325817—2-01251030——8961103
Total3189277923675—17—1147141232-—256633626