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 27th December, 1862.
Names of Medical Officers. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Continued Fever, (Typhus and Typhoid.) | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Pyaemia. | Puerperal Fever. | Carbuncle. | AcutePulmouary 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. Black well | 21 | 29 | 10 | 10 | 55 | 36 | .. | 6 | .. | .. | 1 | 90 | 19 | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 579 | 861 | |
Mr. Champneys | 12 | 27 | 14 | 8 | 43 | 23 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 17 | 7 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 514 | 670 | |
Mr. Richardson | 2 | 23 | 15 | 2 | 41 | 33 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 19 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 661 | 802 | |
Mr. Sequeira | 28 | 46 | 10 | 21 | 58 | 39 | .. | 6 | .. | .. | .. | 25 | 10 | •• | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | •• | 921 | 1173 | |
Total | 63 | 125 | 49 | 41 | 197 | 131 | •• | 17 | •• | •• | 1 | 151 | 37 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | .. | 2675 | 3506 | 10 |
Total for the year ending Dec.27,1862 | 113 | 525 | 118 | 153 | 1085 | 822 | 1 | 56 | .. | .. | 4 | 557 | 135 | 9 | 16 | 24 | 21 | 4 | .. | 10627 | 14270 | 15.8 |
„ year 1861 | 86 | 70 | 100 | 388 | 1418 | 109 | .. | 75 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 803 | 104 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 34 | 2 | .. | 10492 | 13724 | 2.0 |
„ „ 1860 | 65 | 520 | 93 | 83 | 773 | 190 | 1 | 52 | .. | 1 | 9 | 845 | 141 | 3 | 7 | 41 | 28 | 6 | .. | 8534 | 11392 | 3.6 |
„ „ 1859 | 242 | 179 | 175 | 146 | 1209 | 411 | 1 | 73 | .. | 1 | 11 | 609 | 139 | 4 | .. | 14 | 77 | 30 | 1 | 8379 | 11701 | 7.7 |
„ „ 1858 | 20 | 427 | 146 | 230 | 946 | 590 | .. | 70 | .. | 2 | 16 | 1411 | 210 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 65 | 39 | 1 | 7520 | 11718 | 11.3 |
„ „ 1857 | 6 | 266 | 49 | 150 | 1324 | 1441 | 16 | 45 | .. | 2 | 19 | 1727 | 166 | 9 | .. | 9 | 53 | 28 | .. | 5398 | 10708 | 27.7 |
„ 1856 | 115 | 71 | 105 | 98 | 898 | 1929 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6681 | 9897 | 37.1 |
Total number of cases of Sickncss in the "Workhouse in 1860 were 1,677
Ditto — — ditto — ditto in 1861 were 2,191
Ditto — — ditto — ditto in 1862 were 2,978
Neither in the "Workhouse returns nor in the returns of out-door cases are the Midwifery cases included.