Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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locality in which are situated Trafalgar Place, Duke Street, Wellington
Street, Collingwood Street, and those small streets on the eastern confines
of our Parish.
While it was raging in this part, it still continued, though in a milder
degree, in the streets at the back of Shoreditch Church, and the northwest
portions of the Parish generally; nor is it passing away without
having visited the streets abutting on the Hackney Road, and also extending,
in an eastern direction, to Green Street, Digby Street, Cranbrook
Street, Globe Street, &c. In fact, no portion of the Parish wholly escaped,
and all the District Medical Officers had a large amount of additional
labour thrown upon them, as will be seen from Tables annexed:—
OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER | Total. | |||||||||||
8 | 15 | 22 | 29 | 12 | 19 | 26 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 24 | 31 | |||
1. Massingham | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | .. | 1 | 10 | |||||||
2. Welch | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 17 | |||||||
3. Richards | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 36 |
4. Dkfhiez | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 26 | 5 | 93 | |
5. Burgess | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 33 | ||
6. Sarvis | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 21 | |||||
Total Cases | 6 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 17 | 9 | 24 | 24 | 28 | 44 | 21 | 210 |
1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 67 |
JANUARY | FEBRUARY | MARCH | APRIL | Total. | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 25 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 25 | 1 | ||
1. Massingham | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | o | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 41 | ||
2. Welch | 5 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 97 |
3. Richards | 2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 78 |
4. Defuiez | 16 | 21 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 137 |
5. Bukgess | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 55 | |||
6. Sarvis . | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 67 |
Total Cases | 28 | 51 | 29 | 40 | 51 | 42 | 50 | 75 | 16 | 47 | 22 | 24 | 40 | 475 |
12 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 147 |