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Whitechapel 1860

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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TABLE XII.—Summary of the various Causes of Death in the Whitechapel District, for the year ending 29th December, 1860.

	April	July.	Oct.	Dec.	Total.	Total in 1859.	Remarks.
1-Zydotic	103	85	133	101	422	548	* The deaths from Consumption are included in the Tubercular class. In the 1st quarter of the year, they were 81; in the 2nd, 67; in the 3rd, 47; and in the 4th, 58; making a total of 253. During the previous year, the deaths from Consumption were 273.
2—Dropsy, &c.	11	18	14	26	69	83
3—Tubercular*	11.0	107	89	90	398	398
4—Brain and Nerves.	103	50	54	43	250	253
5—Heart & blood vesls.	31	27	25	24	107	95
6—Orgns. of Respiratn	211	101	67	112	491	37 7
7—Organs of digestion	31	27	34	40	132	111
^!8—Kidney, &c.	12	10	8	11	41	37
9—Childbirth, &c.	5	3	3	7	18	15
10—Joints, Bones, &c.	4	5	2	4	15	16	* All the deaths in the London Hospital, which are the result of violence, are placed to the account of the mortality of th district; but as no account of the deaths of the Parishioners, who die in the several charitable institutions, in the Metropolis is obtained, the defect in the record of the one will compensate for the excess in the other.
11—Cellular Tissue &c.	0	1	2	0	3	5
12—Malformations	0	0	0	1	1	3
13—Prmatre. Birth &c.	15	22	19	18	74	78
14—Atrophy	1	3	2	1	7	6
15—Old Age	43	16	18	20	97	119
16—Violent Death*	52	46	44	32	174	153
17—Not Specified	2	2	1	0	5	21
Totals	734	523	515	530	5302	2321

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TABLE XIII.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District, during the years 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, and 1860.

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TABLE XIII., ( continued.)