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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 1879
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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| C-(Continued.) | Date of Reports. | Page of Reports. |
|---|---|---|
| Cold, the greatest degree of, since 1814 to 1856 | March,1877 | 6 |
| „ effects of, by Velleune and Edwards | Jan. 1875 | 7 |
| ,, excessive | Dec. 1859 | 3 |
| March, 1867 | „ | |
| Jan. 1878 | ||
| Dec. 1878 | 5 & 28 | |
| ,, weather and its effects on mortality | June, 1860 | 3 |
| Sept. ,, | 4 | |
| Dec. „ | „ | |
| Jan. 1875 | 7 | |
| Colica pictonum | Dec. 1860 | 5 |
| Common registered lodging houses, the sanitary arrange ments therein under charge of medical officer of health | Jan. 1870 | 13 |
| „ „ ,, ,, not in satisfactory condition | Jan. 1870 | 9, 10, 11 & 12 |
| Commercial Court | March,1873 | 7 |
| Compensation for property unfit for habitation | Sept. 1871 | 14 |
| Comparison of the unhealthiness of certain localities on the north and south sides of the District | March,1873 | 10, 11 & 12 |
| Complaint of an unhealthy area in Spitalfields by rate-payers | June, 1877 | 10 & 11 |
| Completion of house-to-house visitation | Sept. 1861 | 5 |
| Compulsory intimation of infectious diseases | „ 1877 | 9, 10, 11 & 12 |
| ,, powers of removing patients suffering from small-pox attended with success | „ 1878 | 10 |
| Condition, sanitary, of some of the property in the District | Oct. 1856 | 3 |
| „ „ of ccrtain portions of the District in 1852 | „ 1874 | 12,13,14,15,16, 17,18,19 & 20 |
| Constant service of water recommended | „ 1856 | 16 |
| Dec. 1867 | 5 | |
| Jan. 1874 | 7 | |
| Consumption, deaths from, excessive | Sept. 1863 | ,, |
| „ very fatal in the City of London | Dec. 1859. | 4 |
| „ and scrofula, mortality from | Jan. 1874 | 11 |
| Contagion does not appear to be capable of spreading beyond the walls of a hospital | Dec. 1878 | 9 |
| „ and the use of mourning coaches | ,, ,, | 15 |
| Convulsions very frequently returned as causes of death | June, 1862 | 5 |
| July, 1864. | 4 | |
| „ deaths from, should be investigated | ,, ,, | ,, |
| Convictions, and fines inflicted for throwing and sweeping refuse on public ways | „ 1865 | 9 |
| Conway Evans, Dr., on returns of cases of sickness | Sept. 1872 | 15 & 16 |
| Cook, Mr., and Local Management Act | „ 1865 | 6 |
| Coombes, Mr., vaccination officer, returns of | „ 1872 | 8 |
| „ „ „ „ letter of | March,1877 | 7 |
| Cooper's Court | June, 1873 | 8 |
| Jan. 1874 | 9 | |
| Correspondence with water companies | Sept. 1867 | 5 & 6 |
| Dec. 1867 | ,, ,, |