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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
28th March, 1857.
| Districts. | Names of Medical Officers. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough. | Diarhœa. | Typhus or continued Fever. | Erysepilas. | Carbuncle | Bronchitis and Catarrh | pneumonia | Croup. | Phthisis. | Other Diseases. | Total. | Average number of Fever cases per Week. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spitalfields | Mr. Hart | 35 | 3 | 13 | 36 | 99 | 1 | 1 | 254 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 362 | 821 | ||
| Mile End New Town | Mr. Champneys | 31 | 6 | 13 | 66 | 3 | 96 | 2 | 273 | 490 | ||||||
| Whitechapel | Dr. Payne | 2 | 2 | 12 | 69 | 2 | 109 | 12 | 135 | 345 | ||||||
| Goodman's Fields | Mr. Sequeira | 5 | 26 | 8 | 35 | 55 | 93 | 8 | 7 | 221 | 31 | 548 | 1037 | |||
| Total | 5 | 94 | 11 | 56 | 116 | 327 | 14 | 8 | 680 | 6 | 2 | 54 | 1318 | 2091 | 25 | |
TABLE IV.
Number of New Cases of Sickness attended by the Medical Officers of the Whitechapel Union during each Week, commencing 3rd January, 1857.
| Names of Medical Officers. | Week ending Jan. 3rd. | Jan. 10th. | Jan. 17th. | Jan. 24th. | Jan. 31st. | Feb. 7th. | Feb. 14th. | Feb. 2lst. | Feb. 28th. | March 7 th | March 14th | March 21st | March 28th | Totals. | Corresponding Quarter of last Year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. Hart | 73 | 66 | 71 | 52 | 62 | 59 | 62 | 67 | 78 | 77 | 44 | 58 | 52 | 821 | 824 |
| Mr. Champneys | 52 | 36 | 36 | 33 | 27 | 43 | 31 | 42 | 42 | 46 | 27 | 39 | 36 | 490 | 558 |
| Dr. Payne | 46 | 21 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 29 | 28 | 30 | 20 | 34 | 28 | 26 | 16 | 343 | 326 |
| Mr. Sequeira | 73 | 68 | 76 | 81 | 80 | 100 | 94 | 82 | 65 | 83 | 83 | 82 | 70 | 1037 | 838 |
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.