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Whitechapel 1882

[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 1st April, 1882.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhæa.Cholera and Choleraic-Diarrhæa.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.
Mr. Champneys1101220ii0400143000000o487654
Mr. Sequeira22012604220200401000003212306
Mr. Loane30000041010036200000059106
Totals6302480924070021930000057581066
Corresponding Qr. of previous Year.46853060017050022700000048531246
Workhouse Mr. J. J. Ilott.33063049050017262832166600911

In addition to the cases of illness in the Workhouse, which are above recorded, there were 41 cases of syphilis and gonorrhæa.