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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 1867

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: APPEND1XTABLE I —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 on the 28th December, 1867

APPEND1X

TABLE I —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 on the 28th December, 1867

Names of Medical Officers,Small-PoxMeaslesScarlatinaHooping-CoughDiarrhœaContinued Fever, Typhus & TyphoidCholeraErysipelas *Puerperal FeverCroupAcute Pulmonary InflammationCarbuncleRheumatic FeverAgueDysenteryDelirium TremensDiphtheriaAll other DiseasesTotal
Bronchitis and CatarrhPleuritis and Pneumonia
Dr Swyer8199560470100587001113209261220
Mr Champneys2694441808003910100200566709
Dr Richardson6170732200201872070000602783
Mr Sequiera1014413454508001817012300013561545
Total265622291811300190120290040452034504257
Corresponding Quarter of previous year414558112611008160216068233402027593568

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* A ease of Erysipelas occurred in a child 2 weeks old after circumcision