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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 1870
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE IT.
Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 2nd April, 1870.
| Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet-Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Fever. | Cholera. | Total. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artillery | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Spitalfields | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
| Mile End New Town | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 14 | Workhouse |
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Hospital. |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |
| Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
| Totals | 0 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 43 | |
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1869. (14 weeks.) | 1 | 14 | 25 | 3 | 20 | 8 | 44 | 0 | 109 |
Five cases of Pyaemia occurred in the Whitechapel Church sub-District.
TABLE III.
Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarter
ending 2nd April, 1870.
| 0 and under 1. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 20. | 20 and under 40. | 40 and under 60. | 60 and under 80. | j 80 and upwards. | Total Males, 72 Females, 43 | Corresponding j Quarter of 1869. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workhouse | 6 | 11 | 5 | 20 | 32 | 34 | 7 | 115 | 115 |
| London Hospital | 0 | 10 | 18 | 41 | 40 | 18 | 1 | Males, 88 | 142 |
| Females, 40 | |||||||||
| 128 |