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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 1864

[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 2nd January, 1864 (14 weeks).

TABLE II.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 2nd January, 1864 (14 weeks).

Districts.Small-Pox.Measels.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-coughDiarrhoea.Fever.Total.Remarks.
Artillery00400217
Spitalfields0170121021
Mile End New Town11110272042Workhouse.
Whitechapel, North004010914
Whitechapel Church20400028Hospital.
Goodman's Fields1212111523
Aldgate204020513
Total6446171252128
Death from Epidemics for the corresponding quarter, 18621733292152251169

Table: TABLE III.—Showing the Ages at death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 2nd January, 1864 (14 weeks).

TABLE III.—Showing the Ages at death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 2nd January, 1864 (14 weeks).

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 Males, 52 Females, 29Corresponding Quarter of 1862.
Workhouse101417242148169
London Hospital013193537140Males, 77 Females, 41 11893