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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 tfie 29th December, 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Spitalfields | 4 | 1 | 4 | . 2 | 3 | . 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 18 | |
| Mile End New Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | . 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 . | 0 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 25 | |
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | 0 | 1 | . 0 | 1 | . 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 . | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | . 4 | 5 | 8 |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 2 | . 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | « | 9 | ||
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 2 | . 1 | 2 | . 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | b | b | 11 | 6 | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 2 | . 0 | 0 | . 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | b | 5 | |||||
| 12 | . 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 . 8 | 44 | .37 | 49 | ||||||||||
| 5 | 15 | 19 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 81 | 120 | |||||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1859 | 23 | 15 | 40 | 22 | oi | 120 | ||||||||||||