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Whitechapel 1869

[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 October, 1869.

TABLE II.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ending 2nd October, 1869.

Districts.Small-PoxMeaslesScarlet FeverDiphtheriaHooping-CoughDiarrhceaFeverCholera and Choleraic- Diarrhcea.TotalRemarks.
Artillery0060340114
Spitalfields ,0222012185160
Mile End N. Twn.032006145048Work house
Whitechapel, N..0690452127
Whitechapel Ch..0071252017Hsptl
Goodman's Fields03601131024
Aldgate0312011132041
Totals0178213972173231
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding quarter, 1868.21311112101298177
There were four deaths from Scarlatina, one from Typhoid Fever,"and one from Diarrhoea in the London Hospital, all of which cases were of non-residents. Six deaths must therefore be deducted from the total of 231, thereby reducing the mortality from Epidemic Diseases to 225.

Table: TABLE III. - Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 2nd October, 1869.

TABLE III. - Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 2nd October, 1869.

0 and underl1 and under55 and undr2020 and under4040 and under 6060 and under 8080 and upwardsTotal Males 28 Femls 35Corresponding Quarter of 1868.
Workhouse71113211826370
L. Hospital210183638190Males 79 Femls 44 123137