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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 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 2nd January, 1864 (14 weeks).
| Names of Medical Officers. | Small-Pox. | Measels. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Continued Fever, (Typhus and Typhoid). | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Pyæmia. | Puerperal Fever. | Carbuncle. | Acute Pulmonary Inflammations. | Croup. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Delirium Tremens. | Diphtheria. | Other Diseases. | Total. | Average number of Fever Cases per Week. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronchitis & Catarrh. | Pneumonia & Pleuritis. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Mr. Blackwell | 1 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 47 | 47 | 1 | 8 | .. | .. | 1 | 117 | 12 | .. | 5 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 837 | 1101 | |
| Mr. Champneys | 1 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 41 | 33 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 1 | 30 | 11 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | 526 | 678 | |
| Mr. Richardson | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 38 | 22 | .. | 7 | .. | .. | 1 | 31 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 722 | 852 | |
| Mr. Sequeira | 9 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 40 | 59 | .. | 7 | .. | 1 | .. | 11 | 11 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1023 | 1172 | |
| Total | 13 | 12 | 50 | 23 | 166 | 161 | 1 | 26 | .. | 1 | 3 | 189 | 35 | .. | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | .. | 3108 | 3803 | 11.5 |
| Total for the year ending Jan., 1863. | 253 | 80 | 305 | 169 | 1108 | 464 | 1 | 74 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 533 | 134 | 12 | 20 | 11 | 31 | 8 | .. | 11362 | 14564 | 8.6 |
| „ year 1862 | 113 | 525 | 118 | 153 | 1085 | 822 | 1 | 56 | .. | .. | 4 | 557 | 135 | 9 | 16 | 24 | 21 | 4 | .. | 1.0627 | 14270 | 15.8 |
| „ „ 1861 | 86 | 70 | 100 | 388 | 1418 | 109 | .. | 75 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 803 | 104 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 34 | 2 | .. | 10492 | 13724 | 2.0 |
| „ „ 1860 | 65 | 520 | 93 | 83 | 773 | 190 | 1 | 52 | .. | 1 | 9 | 845 | 141 | 3 | 7 | 41 | 28 | 6 | .. | 8534 | 11392 | 3.6 |
| „ „ 1859 | 242 | 179 | 175 | 146 | 1209 | 411 | 1 | 73 | .. | 1 | 11 | 609 | 139 | 4 | .. | 14 | 77 | 30 | 1 | 8379 | 11701 | 7.7 |
| „ „ 1858 | 20 | 427 | 146 | 230 | 946 | 590 | .. | 70 | .. | 2 | 16 | 1411 | 210 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 65 | 39 | 1 | 7520 | 11718 | 11.3 |
| „ „ 1857 | 6 | 266 | 49 | 150 | 1324 | 1441 | 16 | 45 | .. | 2 | 1 | 1727 | 166 | 9 | .. | 9 | 53 | 28 | .. | 5398 | 10708 | 27.7 |
| „ „ 1856 | 115 | 71 | 105 | 98 | 898 | 1929 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6681 | 9897 | 37.1 |
Total number of cases of Sickness in the Workhouse in 1860 was 1,677
Ditto ditto ditto in 1861 was 2,191
Ditto ditto ditto in 1862 was 2,978
Ditto ditto ditto in 1863 was 2,479
Neither in the Workhouse returns nor in the returns of out-door cases are all the Midwifery cases included.