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 Whitechapel]
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TABLE III.—Cases of Sickness of the Zymotic and Acute classes, which are recorded in the Books of the Medical Officers of the Union for the Three Months that ended on the 31st December, 1859.
Names of Medical Officers. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina, | Hooping Cough | Diarrhoea. | Typhus or continued Fever. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Pyemia. | Puerperal Fever. | Carbuncle. | Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pneumonia and Pleuritis. | Croup. | Diphtheria | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Delirium Tremens. | Other Diseases. | Total. | Average number of Fever cases per Week. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr. Blackwell | 35 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 37 | 15 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 117 | 18 | 0 | o | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 514 | 787 | |
Mr. Champneys | 8 | 31 | 8 | 3 | 32 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 385 | 504 | |
Mr. Richardson | 8 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 361 | 459 | |
Mr. Sequeira | 7 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 62 | 55 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 738 | 1012 | |
Total | 58 | 80 | 45 | 8 | 156 | 97 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 220 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 1998 | 2762 | 7 |
Total for Quarter ending April 2nd | 44 | 13 | 28 | 74 | 88 | 93 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 201 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 2384 | 2936 | 7 |
„ July 2nd | 96 | 18 | 28 | 43 | 178 | 114 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 119 | 26 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 2064 | 2742 | 7 | |
„ Oct. 1st | 44 | 78 | 74 | 21 | 787 | 107 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 69 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 2023 | 3261 | 8 | |
Total for year 1859 | 242 | 179 | 175 | 146 | 1209 | 411 | 1 | 73 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 609 | 139 | 0 | 14 | 77 | 30 | 1 | 8469 | 11701 | 7 | |
„ „ 1858 | 20 | 427 | 146 | 230 | 946 | 590 | 0 | 70 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 1411 | 210 | 6 | 16 | 65 | 39 | 1 | 7507 | 11718 | 11 | |
„ „ 1857 | 6 | 266 | 49 | 150 | 1324 | 1441 | 16 | 45 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 1727 | 166 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 53 | 28 | 0 | 6231 | 10708 | 27 |
„ „ 1856 | 115 | 71 | 105 | 98 | 898 | 1929 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6284 | 9897 | 37 |