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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The following Table, taken from the Returns of the Registrar-General, shows the comparative results of the Quarter:—
Week ending | Deaths in London. | Deaths in Wchpl. District | Rainfall. | Mean Tem-perture of the air. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Diarrhœa. | Fever. | Smll.-pox. | From all causes. | From Smallpox. | From all causes. | |||
Inches. | Degrees. | |||||||
April 7 | 9 | 27 | 78 | 1922 | 1 | 58 | 0.85 | 47.8 |
„ 14 | 13 | 12 | 60 | 1714 | 0 | 55 | 1.73 | 46.9 |
„ 21 | 11 | 26 | 68 | 1532 | 0 | 49 | 0.35 | 42.5 |
„ 28 | 12 | 18 | 89 | 1557 | 0 | 39 | 0.08 | 44.7 |
May 5 | 9 | 21 | 54 | 1490 | 1 | 66 | 0.20 | 41.3 |
„ 12 | 20 | 16 | 78 | 1618 | 1 | 47 | 0.24 | 49.2 |
„ 19 | 22 | 12 | 70 | 1564 | 0 | 48 | 0.80 | 51.1 |
„ 26 | 13 | 24 | 69 | 1392 | 0 | 37 | 0.23 | 49.1 |
June 2 | 13 | 16 | 61 | 1443 | 0 | 51 | 0.28 | 53.7 |
„ 9 | 16 | 16 | 58 | 1429 | 0 | 52 | 0.07 | 60.4 |
„ 16 | 27 | 16 | 55 | 1315 | 1 | 58 | 0.41 | 62.2 |
„ 23 | 46 | 13 | 44 | 1271 | 0 | 51 | 0.01 | 63.3 |
„ 30 | 50 | 26 | 44 | 1300 | 0 | 41 | 0.01 | 61.6 |
VACCINATION.
WHITECHAPEL UNION.—Return of the number of Cages Vaccinated by the Public Vaccinator and the Medical Officer of the Workhouse, together with the number of Births Registered during the same quarters.
Quarter ending— | PUBLIC VACCINATOR | Workhouse. | Totals. | Births Registd. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Primary Cases. | Re-Vacci-nation. | Primary Cases. | Re-Vac-cination | Primary Cases. | Re-Vaeci-nation. | ||
September, 1875 | 850 | 1 | 35 | 0 | 335 | 1 | 650 |
December | 178 | 2 | 23 | 0 | 201 | 2 | 655 |
March, 1876 | 236 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 261 | 0 | 722 |
June | 369 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 405 | 0 | 684 |
September | 354 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 394 | 0 | 644 |
December | 347 | 201 | 41 | 0 | 338 | 201 | 714 |
March, 1877 | 408 | 500 | 37 | 27 | 445 | 527 | 757 |
June | 382 | 5 | 24 | 1 | 406 | 6 | 699 |
Totals | 2624 | 709 | 261 | 28 | 2885 | 737 | 5525 |
From the above Table, it appears that 52.2 per cent, of the number of children registered
in this District have undergone primary vaccination at the hands of the Pubfio
Vaccinator, and the Resident Medical Officer of the Workhouse.