London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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confidently state that they either had fever in the incubative stage
when they entered the lodging-houses, or that they took the disease while
they remained there, for I have no means of ascertaining the length of time each
lodger remained in the lodging-house before his removal to the Workhouse;,
but it is manifest that in all those cases that remained in tho Workhouse for
a less period than eight days, fever did not originate therein, for the period
of incubation of fever is about eight, nine, or ten days.
TABLE
Showing the localities from which the patients were received into the Workhouse, and other particulars relating to them.
| Cases and Description of Fever. | Previous Residence. | Date of Admissn. into Workhouse. | Date of Admissn. into Fever Hsptl. | Length of time in the Workhouse before appearance of Fever. | Whether or not the Patients had Fever on Admsn. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enteric Fever | 10, Flower-and-Dean Street | 12 Oct. | 14 Oct. | 2 days | No. |
| Enteric Fever | 32, Flower-and-Dean Street | 16 Nov. | 18 Nov. | 2 days | No. |
| Enteric Fever | 18, Thrawl Street | 24 Nov. | 25 Nov. | 1day | Very slightly. |
| Typhus Fever | 36, Flower-and-Dean Street | 19 Nov. | 27 Nov. | 8 days | No. |
| Enteric Fever | 7, Gun Street | 25 Nov. | 29 Nov. | 4days | No. |
| Enteric Fever | 52, Flower-and-Dean Street | 29 Nov. | 30 Nov. | 1 day | No. |
| Typhus Fever | 10, Lower Keate St. | 30 Nov. | 1 Dec. | 1 day | Very slightly. |
| Enteric Fever | 1, Osborn Place | 30 Nov. | 1Dec. | 1 day | No. |
| Typhus Fever | 34, Flower-and-Dean Street | 1 Dec. | 2 Dec. | 1 day | No. |
| Typhus Fever | 7, Flower-and-Dean Street | 6 Dec. | 9 Dec. | 3 days | No. |
| Typhus Fever | 52, Flower-and-Dean Street | 6 Dec. | 10 Dec. | 4 days | No. |
| Enteric Fever | 10, Lower Keate St. | 15 Dec. | 16 Dec. | 1 days | Very slightly. |
| Enteric Fever | 2, Flower-and-Dean Street | 20 Nov. | 27 Dec. | This case Mr. Ilott thinks may have originated in the Wrkhse. | No. |
| Typhus Fever | 1, Flower-and-Dean Street | 27 Dec. | 29 Dec. | 2 days | No. |
| Enteric Fever | 4, Angel Alley | 29 Dec. | 30 Dec. | 1 day | Very slightly. |