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Whitechapel 1873

[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 29th March, 1873.

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 March, 1873.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Cholera and Choleraic Diarrhœa.Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid.Febricula.Pyaemia.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. Swyer0105301170210329016000017o257
Mr. Champneys000400090600662090000214.310
Mr. Sequeira0002303180200132081002179233
Mr. H. Braye00o9402190300704141004247370
Mr. Loane0003603150000270082001162227
Total01223160978013102081714540079621387
Corresponding Quarter of previous Year.2827642270694013102231412971288991428
Workhouse Mr. C. Ilott.00021400380500862324650410567802

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Mr. Ilott states that there have been admitted during this winter an unusual number of cases of syphilis and gonorrhoea chiefly among women.