Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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Names of Medical Officers. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping-Congh. | Diarrhœa. | Cholera and Choleraic -Diarrhœa. | Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid. | Febricula. | Pyaemia. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Croup. | Acute Pulmonary Inflammation. | Carbuncle. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Delirium Tremens. | Lead Poisoning. | All other Diseases. | Total. | |
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Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleuritis and Pneumonia. | |||||||||||||||||||||
1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In addition to the cases of illness in the Workhouse, which are above recorded, there were 24 cases of syphilis and gonorrhoea.