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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 2nd October, 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 2nd October, 1880.

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. Swyer040021005030080030001119164
Mr. Champneys10102900100004001110002238324
Mr. Sequeira0141120119030020202000082147
Mr. H. Braye1031120040100191010011102147
Mr. Loane000040020200300100002739
Totals258278013109009031180014568821
Corresponding Qr. of previous Year.735311138042802007560190007604867
Workhouse Mr. J. J. Ilott.0103390090110049174492373482679
In addition to the cases of illness in the Workhouse, which are above recorded, there were 39 cases of syphilis and gonorrhœa.