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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 1863

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE II.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ending 26th September, 1863.

TABLE II.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ending 26th September, 1863.

District.Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Total.Remarks.
Artillery0013105423
Spitalfields20180120445
Mile End N. Town201410181247Workhouse.
Whitechapel, N008048525
Whitechapel Church109207322Hospital.
Goodman's Fields2011078432
Aldgate40150310739
Total11*0884157639233
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding quarter, 1862.766234113662209

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* One death occurred in the Small-pox Hospital out of the seven which were sent into that Institution
from this District.

Table: TABLE III.—Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital.

TABLE III.—Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital.

0 and under 11 and under 55 and under 2020 and under 4040 and under 6060 and under 8080 and upwardsTotal Males 38 Femls. 32Corresponding Quarter of 1862.
Workhouse51113212367072
L. Hospital19103733121Males 72 Femls. 31 10370