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Whitechapel 1862

[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 well212910105536..6....19019..5........579861
Mr. Champneys12271484323..2......17711..1....514670
Mr. Richardson2231524133..3......19111........661802
Mr. Sequeira284610215839..6......2510••2331••9211173
Total631254941197131••17••••11513729341..2675350610
Total for the year ending Dec.27,18621135251181531085822156....455713591624214..106271427015.8
„ year 186186701003881418109..751198031049518342..10492137242.0
„ „ 1860655209383773190152..198451413741286..8534113923.6
„ „ 18592421791751461209411173..1116091394..14773018379117017.7
„ „ 185820427146230946590..70..216141121036166539175201171811.3
„ „ 1857626649150132414411645..21917271669..95328..53981070827.7
„ 185611571105988981929..........................6681989737.1

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.