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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 1877

[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 ended on the 29th Dec., 1877.

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 ended on the 29th Dec., 1877.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Cholera and Choleraic-Diarrhœa.Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid.Febricula.Pyæmia.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. Swyer810000330000530300004369
Mr. Champneys30001021010027003000082120
Mr. Sequeira310010320200310300216385
Mr. H. Braye111021024000018003000072114
Mr. Loane300010220100620700003256
Totals18130240121204005960190021292444
Corresponding Qr. of previous Year.19320230329020081100122012323512
Workhouse Mr. J. J. Hott.030010093100001282641093256429765

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In addition to the cases attended by Mr. Ilott in the Workhouse, there were 34 cases of syphilis.