London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Whitechapel 1880

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

This page requires JavaScript

7
VACCINATION.
WHITECHAPEL UNION.—Return of the number of Cases Vaccinated by the Public
Vaccinator and the Medical Officer of the Workhouse, together with the number of
Births Registered during the same quarters.
Quarter ending —
PUBLIC VACCINATOR
Workhouse.
Totals.
Births
Primary
Cases.
Re-Vaccination
Primary
Cases.
Re-Vaccination
Primary
Cases.
Re-Vaccination.
Registd.
December, 1878
258
4
26

284
4
638
March, 1879
273
1
37

310
1
753
June
539
24
25

564
24
656
September
464
2
27

491
2
658
December
373

33

406

655
April 3rd, 1880(14weeks)
380
2
31

411
2
846
June
533

25

558

676
September
387
6
15
-
402
6
590
Totals
3207
39
219

3426
39
5472
Quarterly Return of Small Pox and Fever Cases and Deaths in the Asylum Board
Hospitals, June 30th to September 30th.
FEVER.—18 Admitted.
Wo- Chil-
Men. men. dren. Total.
North District 1 1 0 2
South District 1 3 12 16
*18
Of these 18*—
5 were admitted from Boys' Home,
86, Leman Street.
5 were admitted from London Hospital.
(4 being non-resident in
Union,)
1 Died.
Mary A. Bannister, Aged 6,
from 107, New Road.
SMALL POX.—7 Admitted.
Wo- Chil-
Mcn. men. dren. Total.
North District 0 0 2 2
South District 2 0 3 5
*7
* Of these 7—
3 were sent per London Hospital,
and were non-resident in Union.
2 Died.
Thomas Booth, Aged 38,
from "Rose and Crown" P.H.,
Queen Street, Tower Hill.
Charles Miller, Aged 2½,
from London Hospital,
(late of 25, Duke Street. North Street,
Bethnal Green.)
Fever.
In the term fever are included cases of typhus, typhoid or enteric,
and continued fever. These three divisions of fever, although for
many years were well known to Dr. Murchison and other scientific
physicians, were returned to the local registrars of death as simply