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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 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE III.
Cases of Sickness of the Zymotic and acute classes, which were recorded in the Books of the Medical Officers of the Union for the Three Months that ended on the
27th June, 1857.
| Districts. | Names of Medical Officers. | Small Pox. | Measles | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough. | Diarhœa. | Typhus or continued Fever. | Erysipelas | Carbuncle. | Puerperal Fever. | Ague. | Pneumonia and Pleuritis. | Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Laryngitis. | Dysentery. | Cholera. | Phthisis. | Other Diseases. | Total. | Average number of Fever cases per Week. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spitalfields | Mr. Hart | - | 11 | 3 | 14 | 42 | 94 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 16 | 176 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 354 | 751 | |
| Mile End New Town | Mr. Champneys | — | 24 | 0 | 5 | 23 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 297 | 448 | |
| Whitechapel | Mr. Richardson | — | 23 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 195 | 337 | |
| Goodman's Fields | Mr. Sequeira | — | 39 | 4 | 18 | 28 | 127 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 51 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 659 | 987 | |
| Total | — | 97 | 8 | 40 | 108 | 335 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 38 | 32 | 283 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 44 | 1505 | 2523 | 25 | |
TABLE IV.
Number of New Cases of Sickness attended by the Medical Officers of the Whitechapel Union during each Week, commencing 4th April, 1857.
| Names of Medical Officers. | Week ending April 4th. | April 11th. | April 18th. | April 25th. | May 2nd. | May 9th. | May 16th. | May 23rd. | May 30th. | June 6th. | June 13th. | June 20th. | June 27th. | Totals. | Corresponding Quarter of last Year. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. Hart | 52 | 61 | 63 | 53 | 65 | 61 | 70 | 48 | 54 | 67 | 45 | 58 | 54 | 751 | 2523 | 855 | 2433 |
| Mr. Champneys | 33 | 32 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 41 | 37 | 53 | 33 | 24 | 27 | 34 | 41 | 448 | 479 | ||
| Mr. Richardson | 19 | 28 | 25 | 22 | 24 | 30 | 33 | 36 | 23 | 27 | 21 | 22 | 27 | 337 | 300 | ||
| Mr. Sequeira | 86 | 60 | 77 | 75 | 85 | 84 | 77 | 77 | 67 | 81 | 78 | 70 | 70 | 799 | |||
I have not attempted to give the result of the cases which came under the care of the Medical Officers of the Union, as they cannot be accurately ascertained.
Some of the Patients are, after a longer or shorter time, removed to the Workhouse or Hospitals, and in many instances, they apply for Advice and Medicines at
other Charitable Institutions.