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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 1876

[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 30th December, 1876.

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 30th December, 1876.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Cholera and Choleraic-Diarrhoea.Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid.Febricula.Pyaemia.Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever.Croup.Acute Pulmonary Inflammation.Carbuncle.1 Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Dysenteiy.Delirium Tremens.Lead Poisoning.All other Diseases.Total.
Bronchitis and Catarrh.Pleuritis and Pneumonia.
Dr. Swyer10002011000014604000071100
Mr. Champneys100107021000032001000077131
Mr. Sequeira0210600800001300200004078
Mr. H. Braye710020010020012402000063103
Mr. Loanel0006009000010003201266100
Total19320230329020081100122012323512
Corresponding Qr. of previous Year.08121501127040089160301021381588
Workhouse Mr. J. J. Hott.49010100113040015684954499309676

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In addition to the cases attended by Mr. Hott in the Workhouse, there were 49 cases of syphilis.