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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: APPENDIXTABLE 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 31st December, 1864

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 on the 31st December, 1864

Names of Medical OfficersSmall-PoxMeaslesScarlatinaHooping -CoughDiarrhoeaContinued Fever, Typhus & TyphoidCarbuncleErysipelasPuerperal FeverCroupAcute Pulmonary InflammationCholeraRheumatic FeverAgueDysenteryDelirium TremensDiphtheriaAll other DiseasesTotalAverage number of Fever Cases per Week
Bronchitis and CatarrhPleuritis and Pneumonia
Mr Allinson4272411461211813137150523109851295
Mr Champneys02710519231700357010100428564
Mr Richardson115142524140000152010100799910
Mr Sequiera121817304006011950000009941142
Total69056581198923114206290725103206391168
Corresponding Quarter of 186313125023166161326101893516243031083803115