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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 1880

[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 3rd July, 1880.

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 3rd July, 1880.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Cholera and Choleraic-Diarrhoea.Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid.Febricula.Pysemia.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. Swyer020030011011034010001295133
Mr. Champneys610040000200290070002231282
Mr. Sequeira601330014000090020000108146
Mr. H. Braye120020100100122030002109137
Mr. Loane000010010000900400104662
Totals1351513012604106260260026589760
Corresponding Qr. of previous Year.12173200518030018130200001679953
Workhouse Mr. J. J. Ilott.00031401100100073165893057480716
In addition to the cases of illness in the Workhouse, which are above recorded, there were 34 cases of syphilis and gonorrhœa.