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 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 28th December, 1861
Names of Medical Officers | Small-Pox | Measles | Scarlatina | Hooping Cough | Diarrhoea | Continued Fever (Typhus andTy-phoid) | Cholera | Erysipelas | Pysemia | Puerperal Fever | Carbuncle | AcutePulmonary Inflammations | Croup | Rheumatic Fever | Ague | Dysentery | Delirium Tremens | Diphtheria | Other Diseases | Total | Average number of Fever cases per Week | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bronchitis and Catarrh | Pneumonia and Pleuritis | |||||||||||||||||||||
Mr Blackwell | .. | 2 | 9 | 4 | 50 | 6 | .. | 7 | .. | .. | 1 | 130 | 9 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 667 | 887 | ||
Mr Champneys | 4 | .. | 4 | 14 | 35 | 27 | .. | 7 | .. | .. | .. | 31 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 498 | 632 | |
Mr Richardson | 5 | .. | 5 | 25 | 46 | 16 | .. | 5 | .. | .. | 1 | 31 | 4 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 708 | 839 | ||
Mr Sequeira | 9 | 2 | 11 | 28 | 48 | 23 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 40 | 10 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | 956 | 1131 | ||
Total | 18 | 4 | 29 | 71 | 179 | 62 | .. | 23 | .. | .. | 2 | 232 | 30 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | .. | 2829 | 3489 | 5 | |
Total for the year ending Dec28, 1861 | 86 | 70 | 100 | 388 | 1418 | 109 | .. | 75 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 803 | 104 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 34 | 2 | 13724 | 2 | ||
„ year 1860 | 65 | 520 | 93 | 83 | 773 | 190 | 1 | 52 | 1 | 9 | 845 | 141 | 3 | 7 | 41 | 28 | 6 | 8526 | 11392 | 36 | ||
,, ,, 1859 | 242 | 179 | 175 | 146 | 209 | 411 | 1 | 73 | 1 | 11 | 609 | 139 | 4 | .. | 14 | 77 | 30 | 8469 | 11701 | 77 | ||
„ „ 1858 | 20 | 427 | 146 | 230 | 946 | 590 | .. | 70 | 2 | 16 | 1411 | 210 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 65 | 39 | 7507 | 11718 | 113 | ||
„ „ 1857 | 6 | 266 | 49 | 150 | 1324 | 1441 | 16 | 45 | .. | 2 | 19 | 1727 | 166 | 9 | .. | 9 | 53 | 28 | .. | 6231 | 10708 | 277 |
„ „1856 | 115 | 71 | 105 | 98 | 898 | 1929 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6284 | 9897 | 371 |