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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 29th March, 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 29th March, 1862.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Continued Fever (Typhus and Typhoid.)Erysipelas.Carbuncle.Puerperal Pever.Acute Pulmonary Inflammations.Croup.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Dysentery.All other Diseases.Total.Average number of Fever cases per Week.
Bronchitis and Catarrh.Pneumonia and Pleuritis.
Mr. Blackwell21964391912001071200017041025
Mr. Champneys101729882002641000423582
Mr. Richardson6311814211205911034660794
Mr. Sequiera5201105871200337014212381354
Total144293914019917202252441773025375515.3