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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 1861

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE II—Cases of Sickness of the Zymotic and Acute classes, which are Recorded in the Books of the Medical Officers of the Unionfor the Three Months ending the 29th June, 1861

TABLE II—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 ending the 29th June, 1861

Names of Medical OfficersSmall-PoxMeaslesScarlatinaHooping-CoughDiarrhoeaContinued Ferer (Typhus and Typhoid)EysipelasCarbuncleAgueAcute Pulmonary InflammationsCroupPyasmiaDelirium TremensDysenteryAll other DiseasesTotalAverage number of Fever eases per Week
Bronchitis and CatarrhPneumonia and Pleuritis
Mr Blackwell012512763930113101002544790
Mr Champneys561265225001420100419533
Mr Richardson335214911112721004624743
Mr Sequeira97350611220843900009961200
Total172814109238181749197232106258332661-3