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Whitechapel 1877
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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I may here observe that the 18 cases of small-pox which are recorded
in the books of the Medical Officers of the Union, give only a portion of
the cases which have occurred in the District; for the Sanitary Officers
have received information of 20 cases which were attended by private
medical practitioners; and it appears from the returns which have been
kindly sent to me by Mr. Vallance, that 25 patients were removed to the
Metropolitan Small Pox Hospital during this Quarter from the District, of
which number 3 died. Fourteen patients, suffering from fever, were sent to
the Metropolitan Fever Hospital during the same period, none of whom
died.
All the rooms in which patients have suffered, either from fever,
scarlet-fever, or small-pox, which were reported to the Sanitary Officers,
have been disinfected.
The Committee of the London Hospital have kindly forwarded to me
the following return of Medical Cases, from this District, admitted into the
Hospital for the Quarter ended 30th September, 1877:—
WHITECHAPEL (including Spitalfields, Mile End New Town, the Tower, Mint, &c.), DISTRICT.
| OCCUPATIONS. MALES. | Total No. of Cases. | Fatal Oases. | General Diseases, Class I. | General Diseases, Class II. | Arthritic Diseases. | Diseases of Nervous System. | Diseases of Vaseular System. | Diseases of Respiratory 6ystem. | Diseases of Digestive System. | Diseases of Urinary System. | Zymotic Diseases. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| labourer, in-door—Heavy Work | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| „ „ light Work | 16 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| „ out-door—Heavy Work | 20 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| „ ,, Light Work | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Seamen | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Poisonous or injurious | |||||||||||
| Professional | |||||||||||
| Clerks | |||||||||||
| Children and persons of no occupation | 13 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Total No. of cases | 65 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 19 | 12 | 6 | |||
| Fatal cases | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |