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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.—Deaths from Epidemic Diseases it the Whitechapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 30th June, 1860.
| Districts. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping Cough, | Diarrhœa. | 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| Mile End New Town | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 11 |
| Whitechapel North | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 5 |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| Goodman's Fields | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 |
| Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 8 . 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 36 | 28 | 41 | 31 | ||
| 2 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 16 | 64 | 72 | ||||||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics in the corresponding Quarter, 1859 | 13 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 19 | 72 | 72 | |||||||||
TABLE V.—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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males 41 | ||||||||
| Females 30 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 19 | 21 | 1 | 71 | 52 |