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 29th June, 1872.
Names of Medical Officers. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Febricula. | Continued Fever, Typhus and Typhoid. | Diphtheria. | Pyaemia. | 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 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 129 | 200 |
Mr. Champneys | 1 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 176 | 255 |
Mr. Sequeira | 12 | 11 | I | 5 | I | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 142 | 208 |
Mr. H. Braye | 6 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 85 | 269 |
Mr. Loane | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160 | 219 |
Total | 26 | 31 | 3 | 29 | 30 | 79 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 19 | 1 | 1'4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 792 | 1151 |
Corresponding Quarter of Previous Year. | 174 | 101 | 8 | 28 | 83 | 0 | 29 | 2 | o | 14 | 1 | 0 | 275 | 31 | 1 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 1863 | 2657 |
Workhouse Mr. Bott. | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 68 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 24 | 0 | 48 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 257 | 486 |