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Whitechapel 1882

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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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 30th September, 1882.

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.
Bronchitis and Catarrh.Pleuritis and Pneumonia.
Mr. Champneys414211400110400501000000372473
Mr. Sequeira10511102190300170000000153212
Mr. Loane05013500302001130000015295
Totals5197153002330900784000001577780
Corresponding Qr. of previous Year.212507551032011001000060001651910
Workhouse Mr. J. J. Hott.2121270817030069142681093582809

In addition to the cases of illness in the Workhouse, which are above recorded, there were 24 cases of syphilis and gonorrhoea.