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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 2Sth Sept, 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 2Sth Sept, 1861

Names of Medical OfficersSmall-PoxMeaslesScarlatinaHooping-CoughDiarrhoeaContinued Fever (Typhus and Typlioid)EysipelasCarbuncleAgueAcute Pulmonary InflammationsCroupPuerperal FeverRheumatic FeverDysenteryAll other DiseasesTotalAverage number of Fever cases per Week
Bronchitis and CatarrhPneumonia and Pleuritis
Mr Blackwell0361624327216720001512862
Mr Champneys212282162302710103515783
Mr Richardson1052319303011652025629885
Mr Sequiera92153121286007800008131105
Total1262810886412192497162129246936351