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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 1879

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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APPENDIX.

Table: 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 28th June, 1879.

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 28th June, 1879.

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.Pleuiitis and Pneumonia.
Dr. Swyer0012330380100252040000149210
Mr. Champneys0130700001008000130001270376
Mr. Sequeira01107008000014000000079110
Mr. H. Braye101080200100331010000142185
Mr. Loane0000000200002900200003972
Totals12173200518030018180200001679953
Corresponding Qr. of previous Year.21215110229010193120210013542745
Workhouse Mr. J. J. Ilott.03038001101050135116521264509766

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