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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 VII.
| Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough, | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-Pox. | Measels. | Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœea. | Typhus. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artiller | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 26 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 40 |
| Spitalfield | 8 | 11 | 17 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 61 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 77 | 4 | 53 | 12 | 1 5 | 14 | 28 | 126 |
| Mile End New Town | 7 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 23 | 23 | 89 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 18 | 25 | 25 | 97 | 15 | 26 | 23 | 11 | 13 | 120 | 208 |
| Whitechapel, North | 3 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 51 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 37 | 8 | 23 | 17 | 9 | 14 | 24 | 95 |
| Whitechapel Chnrch | l | 4 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 39 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 49 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 44 |
| Goodman's Fields | 2 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 55 | 0 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 23 | 70 |
| Aldgate | 0 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 41 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 48 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 24 | 75 |
| Totals | 21 | 81 | 59 | 49 | 67 | 69 | 346 | 28 | 27 | 70 | 98 | 101 | 65 | 389 | 33 | 153 | 91 | 62 | 69 | 250 | 658 |
TABLE VII.— Continued.
| Districts. | Small-Pox | Measles. | Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Small-pox. | Measels. | Scarlet Ferer & tSiphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artillery | 9 | 3 | 35 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 61 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 15 |
| Spitalfields | 19 | 4 | 60 | 6 | 27 | 21 | 137 | 1 | 30 | 14 | 6 | 12 | 22 | 85 | 10 | 15 | 17 | 10 | 18 | 22 | 92 |
| Mile End New Town | 14 | 2 | 56 | 6 | 30 | 67 | 175 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 15 | 33 | 89 | 165 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 21 | 35 | 94 | 174 |
| Whitechapel, North | 17 | 10 | 45 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 108 | 0 | 45 | 12 | 20 | 25 | 11 | 113 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 23 | 14 | 69 |
| Whitechapel Church | 7 | 1 | 28 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 58 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 49 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 46 |
| Goodman's Fields | 3 | 6 | 40 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 88 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 69 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 19 | 13 | 10 | 60 |
| Aldgate | 7 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 17 | 20 | 82 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 41 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 19 | 10 | 60 |
| Totals | 69 | 26 | 290 | 52 | 114 | 158 | 709 | 5 | 137 | 50 | 74 | 109 | 170 | 545 | 22 | 28 | 80 | 97 | 122 | 167 | 516 |
TABLE VII.—Continued.
| Districts. | Small-Pox.* | Measles. | Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Cholera. | Total. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artillery | 0 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 62 | Cholera Hospital Workhouse. |
| Spitalfields | 17 | 28 | 18 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 240 | 343 | |
| Mile End New Town | 17 | 32 | 15 | 25 | 24 | 42 | 152 | 307 | |
| Whitechapel, North | 6 | 21 | 9 | 18 | 19 | 13 | 43 | 129 | London Hospital. |
| Whitechapel Church | 1 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 13 | 353 | 415 | |
| Goodman's Fields | 1 | 20 | 7 | 17 | 18 | 5 | 57 | 125 | |
| Aldgate | 2 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 38 | 95 | |
| Total | 44 | 139 | 76 | 94 | 119 | 100 | 904 | 1476 |
In the Report of the Small Pox 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,
1832, and reached its point of culmination in May and June, 1863. Great as was the mortality from Small-pox in 1863, it has
been much greater in 1866. In the last Report of the Small-pox Hospital it is stated that 2,069 cases have been admitted,
which is an excess of 25 per cent, over those admitted in 1863. Fever and Small-Pox cases which occur in this District are
now generally sent to the Hospitals, whereas, until the last 18 months, comparatively few of such cases wore removed.