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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 1881
[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 2nd July, 1881.
| Names of Medical Officers. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Cholera and Choleraic-Diarrhoea. | 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Mr. Champneys | 41 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 441 | 596 |
| Mr. Sequeira | 19 | 32 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 266 | 404 |
| Mr. Loane | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 64 |
| Totals | 61 | 46 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 764 | 1064 |
| Corresponding Qr. of previous Year. | 13 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 62 | 6 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 589 | 760 |
| Workhouse Mr. J. J. Ilott. | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 20 | 0 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 759 | 997 |
In addition to the cases of illness in the Workhouse, which are above recorded, there were 28 cases of syphilis and gonorrhoea.