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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 X.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District, during the Years 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862 and 1863.
| 1856. | 1857 (53 weeks). | 1858. | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Districts. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping-cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping-cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping-cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. |
| Artillery | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 29 |
| Spitalfields | 3 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 10 | 22 | 58 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 62 | 0 | 24 | 22 | 14 | 15 | 18 | 93 |
| Mile End New Town. | 8 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 18 | 63 | 106 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 36 | 88 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 33 | 34 | 38 | 135 |
| Whitechapel, North | 10 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 57 | 99 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 20 | 25 | 34 | 93 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 87 |
| Whitechapel Church | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 41 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 15 | 50 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 39 |
| Goodman's Fields | 6 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 39 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 29 | 8 | 69 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 25 | 12 | 4 | 62 |
| Aldgate | 2 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 19 | 9 | 58 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 27 | 11 | 62 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 53 |
| Totals | 31 | 12 | 45 | 64 | 81 | 188 | 421 | 3 | 60 | 43 | 89 | 139 | 117 | 451 | 4 | 78 | 87 | 117 | 108 | 104 | 498 |
TABLE X.—Continued.
| 1859. | 1860. | 1861. | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Districts. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping-cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. | Hooping-cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. | Hooping-cough. | Diarrhoea. | Typhus. | Total. |
| Artillery | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 26 |
| Spitalfields | 20 | 8 | 17 | 8 | 29 | 7 | 89 | 8 | 11 | 17 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 61 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 77 |
| Mile End New Town | 17 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 31 | 33 | 111 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 23 | 23 | 89 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 18 | 25 | 25 | 97 |
| Whitechapel, North | 9 | 4 | 15 | 9 | 27 | 9 | 73 | 3 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 51 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 37 |
| Whitechapel ChurchGoodman's Fields .. | 4 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 53 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 39 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 49 |
| 8 | 1 | 26 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 67 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 55 | |
| Aldgate | 1 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 24 | 12 | 53 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 41 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 48 |
| Totals | 60 | 31 | 96 | 50 | 141 | 93 | 471 | 21 | 81 | 59 | 49 | 67 | 69 | 346 | 28 | 27 | 70 | 98 | 101 | 65 | 389 |
TABLE X.— Continued.
| 1862. | (1863 53 weeks.) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Districts. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. | Hooping-cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. | Hooping-cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. |
| Artillery | 0 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 40 | 2 | 3 | 35 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 61 |
| Spitalfields | 4 | 53 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 28 | 126 | 19 | 4 | 60 | 6 | 27 | 21 | 137 |
| Mile End New Town | 15 | 26 | 23 | 11 | 13 | 120 | 208 | 14 | 2 | 56 | 6 | 30 | 67 | 175 |
| Whitechapel, North | 8 | 23 | 17 | 9 | 14 | 24 | 95 | 17 | 10 | 45 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 108 |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 44 | 7 | 1 | 28 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 58 |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 23 | 70 | 3 | 6 | 40 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 88 |
| Aldgate | 6 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 24 | 75 | 7 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 17 | 20 | 82 |
| Totals | 33 | 153 | 91 | 62 | 69 | 250 | 658 | 69 | 26 | 290 | 52 | 114 | 158 | 709 |