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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 1870

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: 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 1st January, 1870.

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 1st January, 1870.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Choleraic DianlContinued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid.Pyæmia.Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever.Croup.Acute Pulmonary Inflammation.Carbuncle.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Dysentery.Delirium Tremens.Lead Poisoning.All other Diseases.Total.
Bronchitis and Catarrh.Pleuritis and Pneumonia.
Dr. Swyer01367245307308004164221013110441415
Mr. Champneys01614204502601000817000200409630
Dr. Richardson01567390130200891020102457634
Mr. Sequiera012253750300700161002370009661174
Total05611254212014202700227£2246743328763853
Corresponding Quarter of previous Year.641252514501490281115361038262432043891