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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, of the Three Months ending on the 1st July, 1871.
| Names of Medical Officers. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Cholera and Choieraic-Diarrhcea. | Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid. | Diphtheria. | Pytemia. | 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 | 31 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 23 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 355 | 476 |
| Mr. Champneys | 57 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 537 | 735 |
| Dr. Richardson | 44 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 24 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 512 | 710 |
| Mr. Sequeira | 23 | 27 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 267 | 377 |
| Mr. Loane | 19 | 46 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 06 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 192 | 359 |
| Total | 174 | 101 | 8 | 28 | 83 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 275 | 31 | 1 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 1863 | 2657 |
| Corresponding Quarter of previous Year. | 21 | 143 | 21 | 37 | 235 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 48 | 0 | 38 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2704 | 3393 |
Mr. Lepingwell, the Resident Medical Officer of the Eastern Dispensary, has not had a single case of Small-Pox during this quarter.