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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 29th September, 1860.
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Spitalfields | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 20 | 16 |
| Mile End New Town | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 23 | 22 |
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 25 | 12 |
| "Whitechapel Church | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 12 |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 11 |
| Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 15 |
| 1 | 1 | 21 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 21 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 61 | 50 | 109 | 92 | |
| 2 | 39 | 8 | 0 | 16 | 35 | 11 | 111 | 200 | ||||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 5 | 16 | 10 | 28 | 1 | 4 | 114 | 28 | 201 | 201 | |||||||||
| * One of the Deaths from Fever and one from Scarlet Fever recorded in this District were those of non-residents. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 | 60 and upwards. | Total Males 29 Femls.22 | Corresponding Quarter of 1859. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 3 | 51 | 62 |