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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 1868
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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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 26th December, 1868.
| Names of Medical Officers. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid. | Cholera. | Erysipelas.* | Puerperal Fever. | Croup. | Acute Pulmonary Inflammation. | Carbuncle. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Delirium Tremens. | Lead Poisoning. | All other Diseases. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleuritis and Pneumonia. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Swyer | 3 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 46 | 82 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 995 | 1271 |
| Mr. Champneys | 0 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 439 | 531 |
| Dr. Richardson | 1 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 40 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 73 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 614 | 787 |
| Mr. Sequiera | 2 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 35 | 32 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1156 | 1302 |
| Total | 6 | 41 | 25 | 25 | 145 | 149 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 153 | 61 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3204 | 3891 |
| Corresponding Quarter of previous Year. | 26 | 56 | 22 | 29 | 181 | 130 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 202 | 90 | 0 | 40 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3450 | 4257 |
| * A case of Erysipelas occurred in a child, aged 4 months, after Vaccination. | ||||||||||||||||||||