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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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| Cases and description of Fever. | Previous Residence. | Date of admission into Workhouse. | Date of admission into Fever Hospital. | Length of time in the Workhouse before appearance of Fever. | Whether or not Patients had Fever on admission. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typhus Fever | 8, Nelson Court | Feb. 9 | Feb. 10 | 1 day | Slightly |
| Typhus Fever | 57, Flower & Deau Street | 8 | 10 | 2 „ | No |
| Typhus Fever | 52, Flower & Dean Street | 8 | 10 | 2 „ | „ |
| Typhus Fever | 59, Wentworth Street | 7 | 10 | 3 „ | „ |
| Scarlet Fever | 6, Little Pearl Street | Aug. 16 | 12 | 6 months | „ |
| Typhus Fever | 1, Flower & Dean Street | Feb. 11 | 15 | 4 days | „ |
| Typhus Fever | 64, Wentworth Street | 15 | 16 | 1 „ | Slightly |
| Typhus Fever | 59, Wentworth Street | 15 | 16 | 1 „ | „ |
| Typhus Fever | Refuge, Crispin Street | 14 | 16 | 2 „ | No |
| Typhus Fever | — Flower & Dean Street | 15 | 17 | 2 „ | „ |
| Typhus Fever | 6, Crawford Court | 21 | 22 | 1 „ | Slightly |
| Typhus Fever | No home | 21 | 22 | 1 ,, | „ |
| Typhus Fever | 1, Garden Court | 24 | 26 | 2 „ | No |
| Typhus Fever | 7, Upper Keate Street | 27 | 28 | 1 „ | Slightly |
| Typhus Fever | Refuge, Crispin Street | 17 | 29 | 12 „ | No |
| Typhus Fever | Refuge, Banner Street* | 28 | 29 | 1 „ | Slightly |
| Typhus Fever | 4, Crown Court, Went. St | 29 | Mar. 2 | 4 „ | No |
| Typhus Fever | Refuge, Crispin Street | Mar. 4 | 6 | 2 „ | „ |
| Typhus Fever | 18, Thrawl Street | 8 | 8 | A few hours | Slightly |
| Typhus Fever | 18, Upper Keate Street | 11 | 13 | 2 days | No |
| Typhus Fever | 55, Flower & Dean Street | 20 | 22 | 2 „ | „ |
JAMES JOHN ILOTT,
Resident Medical Officer.
The above return shows that 38 cases of typhus fever, 3 of enteric
fever, and 2 of scarlet-fever have been sent from the "Workhouse, during
the last five months, to the Homerton Asylum Board Hospital, of persons
residing in this District, who had been temporarily admitted into the
Workhouse before fever had become developed. Of the above cases, 17 were
removed into the Workhouse from the registered common lodging houses, 4
from the Refuge in Crispin-street and 1 from Banner-st.* In" my last Report
a similar return is given of the number of patients who had been sent to the
* Banner Street is not in this District.