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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 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 27th September, 1879.
| 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. Swyer | 0 | 18 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 127 | 198 |
| Mr. Champneys | 0 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 246 | 316 |
| Mr. Sequeira | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 98 | 155 |
| Mr. H. Braye | 7 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 101 | 153 |
| Mr. Loane | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 45 |
| Totals | 7 | 5 | 31 | 11 | 38 | 0 | 4 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 6 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 604 | 867 |
| Corresponding Qr. of previous Year. | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 43 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 66 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 528 | 695 |
| Workhouse Mr. J. J. Ilott. | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 9 | 6 | 51 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 543 | 741 |
In addition to the cases attended by Mr. Hott in the Workhouse, there were 41 cases of syphilis.