London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
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]
This page requires JavaScript
TABLE X.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District, during the Years 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864.
| 1859. | 1857 (53 weeks). | 1858. | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping-cough. | Diarrhoea. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Typhus. | Total. |
| Artillery | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 27 | i | 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 | s3 | 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 | g | 7 | 7 | 11 | 39 |
| Goodman's Fields | 5 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 39 | 0 | 6 | 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 | 101 | 498 |
TABLE X.-Continue
| 1859. | 1860. | 1861. | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever and Diptheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. |
| Artillery | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 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 Church | 4 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 53 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 39 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 49 |
| Goodman's Fields | 8 | 1 | 26 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 67 | 2 | 1? | 6 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 55 |
| Aldgate | 1 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 24 | 12 | 53 | 0 | 23 | 4 | I | 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 tfeeks). | 1864. | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. |
| 0 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 401 | 2 | 3 | 35 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 61 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 23 | |
| 4 | 53 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 28 | 12fil | 19 | 4 | 60 | 6 | 27 | 21 | 137 | 1 | 30 | 14 | 6 | 12 | 22 | 85 | |
| Mile End New Town | 15 | 2 6 | 23 | 11 | 13 | 120 | 206 | 14 | 2 | 56 | 6 | 30 | 67 | 175 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 15 | 33 | 89 | 165 |
| Whitechapel, North | 8 | 23 | 17 | 9 | 14 | 24 | 95 | 17 | 10 | 45 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 108 | 0 | 45 | 12 | 20 | 25 | 11 | 113 |
| Whitechapel Church | n | 4 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 44 | 7 | 1 | 28 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 58 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 49 |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 23 | 70 | 3 | 6 | 40 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 88 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 15 | BU |
| Aldgate | 6 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 24 | 75 | 7 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 17 | 20 | 82 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 41 |
| Totals | 33 | 153 | 91 | 62 | 69 | 658 | 250 | 69 | 26 | 290 | 52 | 114 | 158 | 709 | 5 | 137 | 50 | 74 | 109 | 170 | .545 |
In the Report of the SmallPox Hospital for 1864, it is stated that the epidemic, the severest known within
the memory of the present generation, both as regards the number of persons attacked, and its severity and
fatality, commenced in November 1862, and reached its point of culmination in May and June 1863