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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 1882

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: VACCINATION.WHITECHAPEL UNION.—Return of the number of Cases Vaccinated by the Public Vaccinator and the Medical Officer of the Workhouse, together with the number of Births Registered during the same quarters.

VACCINATION.

WHITECHAPEL UNION.—Return of the number of Cases Vaccinated by the Public Vaccinator and the Medical Officer of the Workhouse, together with the number of Births Registered during the same quarters.

Quarter ended—PUBLIC VACCINATORworkhoose.Totals.Births Registd.
Primary Cases.Re-Vacci-nation.Primary Cases.Re-Vac-cinationPrimary Cases.Re-Vaccination.
September, 1880387615—4026590
December335135—3701621
March, 18814288441246986694
June58225049150631400674
September3713434420405454586
December394425179419183578
March, 18823601731146391163644
June543636125579131520
Totals34004022661022366614244907

Table: The following Table exhibits the weekly progress in London of the existing epidemic of small-pox, and is continued from page 8 of my Report lor the Quarter ended 1st July, 1882.

The following Table exhibits the weekly progress in London of the existing epidemic of small-pox, and is continued from page 8 of my Report lor the Quarter ended 1st July, 1882.

1882. Week endingDeaths.Number of Patients in the Asylum Hospitals.
April 814352
158337
228350
2916321
May 613300
1310296
„ 209285
2710256
June 36272
„ 1010257
„ 1715251
„ 249242
July 10233
Total Deaths in London128

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The week ended July 1st, was the first since November, 1879, in which no
fatal case of small-pox was registered within registration London. The average
weekly number of deaths from this disease in the corresponding week of the last
ten years was 22.