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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 1866
[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 on the 29th December, 1866.
| Names of Medical Officers. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid. | Carbuncle. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Croup. | Acute Pulmonary Inflammation. | Cholera. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Delirium Tremens. | Diphtheria. | All other Diseases. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleuritis and Pneumonia. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Swyer | 32 | 14 | 30 | 1 | 97 | 36 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 45 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 679 | 989 |
| Mr. Champneya | 2 | 23 | 8 | 0 | 60 | 34 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 428 | 603 |
| Mr. Richardson | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 31 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 504 | 626 |
| Mr. Sequiera | 6 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 73 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 15 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1148 | 1350 |
| Total | 41 | 45 | 58 | 11 | 261 | 100 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 160 | 68 | 8 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2759 | 3568 |
| Corresponding Quarter of previous Year. | 6 | 90 | 56 | 58 | 119 | 89 | 2 | 31 | 1 | 4 | 206 | 29 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3206 | 3911 |
Numerous slight cases of Fever and of Febricaia are recorded in the books of the Medical Officers, but those cases only appear in my returns which are visited at the residences of the patients.