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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 1858
[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 Mob
that ended on the 2nd January, 1858.
| Districts. | Names of Medical Officers. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough | Diarrhoea. | Typhus or continued Fever. | Erysipelas. | Carbuncle. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Pneumonia and Pleuritis. | Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Laryngitis and Croup. | Dysentery. | Cholera. | Phthisis. | Other Diseases. | Total | Average number of Fever cases per Week. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Spitalfields | Mr. Hart | 2 | 1 | 7 | 55 | 106 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 285 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 393 | 883 | ||
| †Mile End New Town | Mr. Champneys | 8 | 7 | 0 | 30 | 74 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 357 | 497 | ||
| ‡Whiteehapel | Mr. Richardson | a | 7 | 0 | 21 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 141 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 178 | 396 | ||
| || Goodman's Fields | Mr. Sequeira | 13 | 1 | 22 | 49 | 186 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 67 | 130 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 897 | 1184 | ||
| Totals | 25 | 16 | 29 | 155 | 395 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 94 | 564 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1825 | 2960 | 28 | ||
| 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 Mob that ended on the 2nd January, 1858. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Districts. | Names of Medical Officers. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough | Diarrhoea. | Typhus or continued Fever. | Erysipelas. | Carbuncle. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Pneumonia and Pleuritis. | Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Laryngitis and Croup. | Dysentery. | Cholera. | Phthisis. | Other Diseases. | Total | Average number of Fever cases per Week. |
| *Spitalfields | Mr. Hart | 2 | 1 | 7 | 55 | 106 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 285 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 393 | 883 | ||
| †Mile End New Town | Mr. Champneys | 8 | 7 | 0 | 30 | 74 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 357 | 497 | ||
| ‡Whiteehapel | Mr. Richardson | a | 7 | 0 | 21 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 141 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 178 | 396 | ||
| || Goodman's Fields | Mr. Sequeira | 13 | 1 | 22 | 49 | 186 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 67 | 130 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 897 | 1184 | ||
| Totals | 25 | 16 | 29 | 155 | 395 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 94 | 564 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1825 | 2960 | 28 | ||
TABLE IV.—Number of New Cases of Sickness attended by the Medical Officers of the Whiteehapel Union during each Week, commencing 27th Sep., 1857
| Names of Medical Officers. | Week ending Oct. 3th. | Oct 10 th. | Oct. 17 th. | Oct. 24th. | Oct. 31st. | Nov. 7th. | Nov. 14th. | Nov. 21st. | Nov. 28t h. | Dec. 5th. | Dec. 12th. | Dec. 19th. | Dec. 26th. | Jan. 2nd. | Totals. | orrresponding Quarter of last Year. 13 Weeks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. Hart | 62 | 42 | 74 | 61 | 62 | 92 | 50 | 78 | 66 | 70 | 65 | 63 | 35 | 65 | 883 | 783 |
| Mr. Champneys | 40 | 23 | 32 | 33 | 50 | 41 | 53 | 38 | 33 | 30 | 32 | 43 | 18 | 31 | 497 | 410 |
| Mr. Richardson | 30 | 18 | 41 | 28 | 30 | 24 | 32 | 27 | 33 | 29 | 27 | 22 | 23 | 28 | 402 | 276 |
| Mr. Sequeira | 78 | 77 | 92 | 76 | 75 | 104 | 91 | 109 | 103 | 60 | 90 | 94 | 72 | 63 | 1188 | 846 |
| 210 | 160 | 239 | 198 | 217 | 261 | 226 | 250 | 235 | 189 | 214 | 222 | 148 | 187 | 2966 | 2315 |
* The Spitalfields Medical District embraces the whole of the Parish of Christchurcb, the Liberty of the Old Artillery Ground, and Norton Folgate. It contains
portions of the Registration Districts of Artillery, Spitalfields, and Mile End New Town.
† The Mile End New Town Medical District embraces the whole of the Hamlet of Mile End New Town. In this District is situated the Spitalfields Workhouse,
and comprises portions of the Artillery, Spitalfields, and Whiteehapel North Registration Districts.
‡ The Whiteehapel Medical District embraces all that portion of Whiteehapel Parish which is to the East of the centres of Osborn Street and Church Lanek
and contains portions of the Whiteehapel North, Whiteehapel Church, and Mile End New Town Registration Districts, and also the Whiteehapel Workhouse.
|| The Goodman's Fields Medical District is the most populous, and embraces the remaining portion of Whiteehapel Parish, the Parishes of Lower Aldgate,
Trinity Minories, the Tower, and St. Katharines. In this District are comprised portions of the Whiteehapel North, Whiteehapel Church, the whole of the Goldman's
Fields and Aldgate Registration Districts.