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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 30th Jane, 1866.
| District. | Small-Pox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Hooping-Cough | Diarrhœa | Fever | Total | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artillery | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 20 | |
| Spitalfields | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | |
| Mile End N. Twn | 5 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 46 | Workhouse |
| Whitechapel, N | 2 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 29 | |
| Whitechapel Ch | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 13 | Hospital |
| Goodman's Fields | 1 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 26 | |
| Aldgate | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 16 | |
| Total | 12 | 71 | 21 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 27 | 165 | |
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding quarter, 1865. | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 23 | 26 | 36 | 99 |
One case of Cholera occurred in the sub-District of Mile End New Town. Six deaths
from Pyæfmia are recorded, and three from Erysipelas. Sixty.eight cases of Fever
were sent to the Fever Hospital, of which twelve died, and twenty-two were
sent to the Small Pox Hospital, of which three died.
TABLE III.-—Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 30th June, 1866.
| 0 and under l | 1 and under5 | 5 and undr20 | 20 and under 40 | 40 and under 60 | 60 and under 80 | 80 and upwards | Total Males 54 Femls 36 | Corresponding Quarter of 1865. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workhouse | 7 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 3 | 84 | 79 | |
| Males | 56 | |||||||||
| L. Hospital | 0 | 3 | 18 | 29 | 33 | 15 | 0 | Femls | 42 | 97 |
| 98 | ||||||||||