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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 1867

[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 28th September, 1867

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 28th September, 1867

Names of Medical OfficersSmall-PoxMeaslesScarlatinaHooping-CoughDiarrhœaContinued Fever, Typhus & TyphoidCholeraCholeraic DiarrhoeaErysipelasPuerperal FeverCarbuncleAcute Pulmonary InflammationCroupRheumatic FeverAgueDysenteryDelirium TremensAll other DiseasesTotal
Bronchitis and CatarrhPleuritis and Pneumonia
Dr Swyer261746248130191021261110526571048
Mr Champneys7000209180110014301010465720
Dr Richardson4382165151020123105000569799
Mr Sequiera42411021415002001132601 J111071401
Total4144131883661121411693332307327983968
Corresponding Quarter of previous Year3424455411021805026130351376316428824547