[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel].

  • Whitechapel (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
1876
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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 ending on the 1st April, 1876. Names of Medical Officers. Small-Pox. Measles. Scarlatina. Hooping-Cough. Diarrhœa. Cholera and Choleraic-Diarrhœa. Continued Fever, Typhus & Typhoid. Febricula. Pyæmia. Erysipelas. Puerperal Fever. Croup. Acuta Pulmonary Inflammation. Carbuncle. Rheumatic Fever. Ague. Dysentery. Delirium Tremens. Lead Poisoning. All other Diseases. Total. Bronchitis and Catarrh. Pleuritis and Pneumonia. Dr. Swyer 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 11 16 0 2 0 0 1 0 75 108 Mr. Champneys 0 0 0 4 0 0 9 0 0 1 0 0 50 2 0 9 0 0 0 1 132 208 Mr. Sequeira 0 4 0 1 2 0 10 9 2 0 0 0 16 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 80 132 Mr. H. Braye 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 9 0 2 0 0 46 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 89 155 Mr. Loane 0 5 0 6 0 0 2 6 0 0 0 0 21 3 0 6 0 1 0 1 99 150 Total 0 14 0 12 3 0 21 25 2 3 0 0 144 26 0 23 0 1 1 3 475 753 Corresponding Qr. of previous Year. 0 0 7 6 9 0 3 39 0 3 0 4 131 21 1 26 4 0 2 5 496 757 Workhouse Mr. J. J. Ilott. 0 15 2 7 15 0 41 48 0 15 1 0 273 38 4 129 6 4 10 12 437 1057 In addition to the cases attended by Mr. Ilott in the Workhouse, there were 33 cases of syphilis.