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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 1875

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: APPENDIX.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 3rd April, 1875.

APPENDIX.

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 3rd April, 1875.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Cholera and Choleraic-Diarrhœa.Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid.Febricula.Pyaemia.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. Swyer0010101130100121205000074120
Mr. Champneys002000230101251140010106147
Mr. Sequeira003120011010029402000092145
Mr. H. Braye0014200500034340100002129203
Mr. Loane00014007000021005401395142
Total0076903390304131211264025496757
Corresponding Qr. of previous Year.03999130154805021091501511107801062
Workhouse Mr. J. J. Ilott.0000160219013002282427422710311756

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Included in the total number of cases of illness in the Workhouse there were 46 cases of syphilis.