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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 July, 1864.

TABLE II.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ending 2nd July, 1864.

District.Small-PoxMeaslesScarlet FeverDiphtheriaHooping-CoughDiarrhoeaFeverTotalRemarks.
Artillery-0014027
Spitalfields—40012612
Mile End N. Twu.—600672746Workhouse
Whitechapel, N—183064031
Whitechapel Ch-0006129Hospital
Goodman's Fields-40133314
Aldgate—80001413
Total-4032261843132
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding quarter, 1863.213823151328165

Table: TABLE III.—Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London: Hospital, for the Quarter ending 2nd July, 1864.

TABLE III.—Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London: Hospital, for the Quarter ending 2nd July, 1864.

0 and under l1 and under 55 and under 2020 and under 4040 and under 6060 and under 8080 and upwardsTotal Males 62 Femls56Corresponding Quarter of 1863.
Workhouse13122303431611870
L. Hospital05142932161Males 62 Femls35 9797