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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 III.—Cases of Sickness of the Zymotic and Acute Classes, recorded in the Books of the Medical Officers of the Union, for theThree Months ending on the 30th March, 1861.

TABLE III.—Cases of Sickness of the Zymotic and Acute Classes, recorded in the Books of the Medical Officers of the Union, for the

Three Months ending on the 30th March, 1861.

Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Continued Fever. (Typhus & Typhoid.)Erysipelas.Carbuncle.Puerperal Fever.Acute Pulmonary Inflammations.Croup.Rheumatic Fever.Delirium Tremens.Dysentery.1 All other Diseases.Total.Average number of Fever cases per Week.
Bronchitis and Catarrh.Pleuritis and Pneumonia.
Mr. Blackwell191312274411210155100105601901
Mr. Champneys366242152001700002445531
Mr. Richardson1099132011002610005580675
Mr. Sequeira7423652101007924321510011227
Total3932291001371716102773533117262733341-3