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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 1871
[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 1st April, 1871.
| 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. Swyer | 75 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 30 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 386 | 604 |
| Mr. Champneys | 117 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 21 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 174 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 650 | 1020 |
| Dr. Richardson | 82 | 5 | 0 | 22 | 3G | 0 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 675 | 947 |
| Mr. Sequeira | 33 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 437 | 599 |
| Mr. Loane | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 132 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 258 | 518 |
| Total | 352 | 15 | 4 | 50 | 97 | 0 | 82 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 523 | 81 | 2 | 28 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2406 | 3688 |
| Corresponding Quarter of previous Year. | 3 | 34 | 27 | 32 | 109 | 0 | 61 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 177 | 41 | 0 | 37 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3090 | 3647 |
Five cases of Small-pox in this District have have attended by Mr. Lepingwell, the Resident Medical Officer of the Eastern Dispensary, and 49 cases have been reported to me by
6 private Medical Practitioners. Six persons having Small-pox presented themselves for admission at the London Hospital, were sent, as far as could be ascertained, to their respective
Parishes. Twenty-five cases of Small-pox occurred in the Registered Common Lodging Houses.