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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 1862

[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 27th Sept., 1862.

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 27th Sept., 1862.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Continued fever (Typhus and Typhoid.)Cholera.Erysipelas.Acute Pulmonary Inflammations.Croup.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Dysentery.Delirium Tremens.All other Diseases.Total.
Bronchitis and Catarrh.Pneumonia and Pleuritis.
Mr. Blackwell-5181215448-2471003100538874Average number of Fever cases per Weeks.
Mr. Champneys634810136103—4611-0000395714
Mr. Richardson1701610130151211210050597861
Mr. Sequiera9889612868—2812015218121151
Total1624341385482341107235246712342360018