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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 1860
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE IV.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 31st March, I860.
| Districts. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping Cough, | Diarrhoea | Fever. | Total. | Total for corresponding Quarter, 1859. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M | F. | |
| Artillery | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| Spitalfields | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | l | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 10 |
| Mile End New Town | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 24 | 11 | 6 |
| Whitechapel, North | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 3 |
| Goodman's Field | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| 4 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 39 | 49 | 44 | ||
| 12 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 31 | 88 | |||||||||||
| 8 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 32 | 24 | |||||||||||||
| *One of the Deaths from Fever recorded in this District was a non-resident. | ||||||||||||||||||
TABLE V.—Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse.
| 0 and under 1 | 1 and under 5 | 5 and under 20 | 20 and under 40 | 40 and under 60 | 60 and under 80 | 80 and upwards. | Total | Corresponding Quarter of 1859. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 8 | 24 | 23 | 29 | 8 | 115 | 62 |