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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 Tooks of the Medical Officers of the Union,for the Three Months ending on the 31st December, 1870.

APPENDIX.

TABLE I.—Cases of Sickness of the Zymotic and Acute Classes, which are recorded in the Tooks of the Medical Officers of the Union,

for the Three Months ending on the 31st December, 1870.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Cholera and Choleraic-Diarrhœa.Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid.Diphtheria.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. Swyer123119140170110050300111000387655
Mr. Champneys3826723038013001352032000722991
Dr. Richardson1728104103703008730122201600825
Mr. Sequiera132311901616004651100003320446
Mr. Loane540151006303009834021000335606
Total2457193210701711360041674138620423643523
Corresponding Quarter of previous Year.0561125421201420270. 022782246743328763853