Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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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 2nd Oct., 1869.
Names of Medical Officers, | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhcea. | Cholera and Choleraic-Diarrhoea. | Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Croup. | Acute Pulmonary Inflammation. | Carbuncle. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague, | Dysentery. | Delirium Tremens. | Lead Poisoning. | All other Diseases. | Total. | |
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Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleuritis and Pneumonia. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Dr. Swyer | 1 | 17 | 63 | 16 | 173 | 39 | 1 | 17 | 28 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1054 | 1134 | ||||||
Mr. Champneys | 6 | 15 | 17 | 112 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 556 | 567 | |||||
Dr. Richardson | 7 | 17 | 8 | 119 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 562 | 658 | ||||||
Mr.Sequiera | 1 | 24 | 40 | 49 | 156 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 1156 | 1167 | ||||||||||
2 | 54 | 135 | 90 | 560 | 1 | 72 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 66 | 38 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3328 | 3526 | ||
Corresponding Quarter of previous year. | 13 | 51 | 17 | 23 | 1041 | 7 | 113 | 25 | 60 | 44 | 26 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3328 | 4765 | ||||
Of the 18 cases of Fever attended by Mr. Champneys, one is recorded as Relapsing Fever. |