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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APPENDIX
TABLE IāCases 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 on the 31st December, 1864
Names of Medical Officers | Small-Pox | Measles | Scarlatina | Hooping -Cough | Diarrhoea | Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid | Carbuncle | Erysipelas | Puerperal Fever | Croup | Acute Pulmonary Inflammation | Cholera | Rheumatic Fever | Ague | Dysentery | Delirium Tremens | Diphtheria | All other Diseases | Total | Average number of Fever Cases per Week | |
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Bronchitis and Catarrh | Pleuritis and Pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||
Mr Allinson | 4 | 27 | 24 | 11 | 46 | 12 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 137 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 985 | 1295 | |
Mr Champneys | 0 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 19 | 23 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 428 | 564 | |
Mr Richardson | 1 | 15 | 14 | 25 | 24 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 799 | 910 | |
Mr Sequiera | 1 | 21 | 8 | 17 | 30 | 40 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 994 | 1142 | |
Total | 6 | 90 | 56 | 58 | 119 | 89 | 2 | 31 | 1 | 4 | 206 | 29 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3206 | 3911 | 68 |
Corresponding Quarter of 1863 | 13 | 12 | 50 | 23 | 166 | 161 | 3 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 189 | 35 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3108 | 3803 | 115 |