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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 1866
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE II.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ending 31st March, 1866.
| District. | Small-Pox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Hooping-Cough | Diarrhcea | Fever | Total | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artillery | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| Spitalfields | 4 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 26 | |
| Mile End N. Twn. | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 14 | 48 | Workhouse |
| Whitechapel, N | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 | |
| Whitechapel Ch | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14 | Hospital |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
| Aldgate | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | |
| Total | 15 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 39 | 2 | 29 | 113 | |
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding quarter, 1865. | 3 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 41 | 9 | 46 | 128 |
There were nine deaths in the Fever Hospital out of the fifty-eight persons who were sent by the
Guardians to that Institution, and one death from small-pox out of the seventeen persons sent to
the Small-pox Hospital.
TABLE III.—Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 31st March, 1866.
| 0 and underl | 1 and under5 | 5 and undr20 | 20 and under 40 | 40 and under 60 | 60 and under 80 | 80 and upwards | Total Males 72 Femls 47 | Corresponding Quarter of 1865. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workhouse | 11 | 14 | 1 | 18 | 34 | 32 | 9 | 119 | 106 |
| L. Hospital | 1 | 12 | 17 | 47 | 32 | 14 | 0 | Males 82 Femls 41 123 | 126 |