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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 Months
that ended on the 3rd July, 1858.
| Districts. | Names of Medical Officers. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough | Diarrhoea. | Typhus or continued Fever. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Pyaemia. | Puerperal Fever. | Carbuncle. | Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pneumonia and Pleuritis. | Croup. | Diptheria | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Delirium Tremens. | Other Diseases. | Total. | Average number of Fever cases per Week. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spitalfields | Mr. Blackwell | 0 | 76 | 0 | 18 | 75 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 585 | 806 | |
| Mile End New Town | Mr. Champneys | 4 | 31 | S | 17 | 50 | 51 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 348 | 550 | |
| Whitechapel | Mr. Richardson | 1 | 40 | 4 | 15 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 217 | 444 | |
| Goodman's fields | Mr. Sequeira | 1 | 94 | 3 | 23 | 73 | 66 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | BO | 23 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 778 | 1155 | |
| Totals | 6 | 241 | 12 | 73 | 224 | 129 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 251 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 8 | 1 | 1928 | 2955 | 10 |
TABLE IV.—Number of New Cases of Sickness attended by the Medical Officers of the Whitechapel Union during each Week, commencing 10th April, 1858.
| Names of Medical Officers. | Week ending April 10th | April 17 th | April 24th | May 1st | May 8th | May 15th | May 22nd i | May 29 th | June 5 th | June 12th | June 19 th | June 26th | July 3rd. | Totals. | Corrres-ponding Quarter of last Year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. Blackwell | 26 | 2tf | 64 | 81 | 51 | 47 | 55 | 62 | 78 | 76 | 86 | 75 | 77 | 806 | 751 |
| Mr. Champneys | 39 | 55 | 42 | 40 | 31 | 36 | 36 | 35 | 59 | 51 | 39 | 47 | 40 | 550 | 448 |
| Mr. Kichardson | 30 | 39 | 41 | 43 | 20 | 28 | 23 | 31 | 42 | 38 | 53 | 33 | 32 | 444 | 337 |
| Mr. Sequeira | 98 | 85 | 98 | 79 | 101 | 81 | 79 | 88 | 73 | 95 | 86 | 98 | 94 | 1155 | 987 |
| 2955 | 2523 |
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.
To the 2955 cases of Illness above recorded, must be added 379 cases attended in the Workhouses, making a total of 3334, including
19 feyer cases, and 23 cases of diarrhoea.