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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 1878

[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 ended on the 28th Sept., 1878.

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 ended on the 28th Sept., 1878.

Names of Medical Officers.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Cholera and Choleraic-Diarrhoea.Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid.Febricula.Pysemia.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. Swyer100011006000172020200108140
Mr. Champneys0201150030100380060021228297
Mr. Sequeira200040330000520000005877
Mr. H. Braye01009101010012212000287119
Mr. Loane101041020000400100104762
Totals431143231502016661110233528695
Corresponding Qr. of previous Year.11158140132305002560100023257410
Workhouse Mr. J. J. Ilott.00010240011020049182660035409599

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In addition to the cases attended by Mr. Ilott in the Workhouse, there were 28 cases of syphilis.