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Whitechapel 1870

[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 July, 1870.

TABLE II.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 2nd July, 1870.

Districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet-Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Cholera &Cho-leraic-Diarha.Total.Remarks.
Artilery031102007
Spitalfields0310314012
Mile End New Town0300414012Workhouse.
Whitechapel, North000012205
Whitechapel Church001122207Hospital.
Goodman's Fields0300922016
Aldgate003012107
Totals01261201215066
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1869.116330307233113

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There was one death from Scarlatina, one from Typhoid Fever, one from Diarrhœa, and three
from Pyæmia, in the London Hospital.

Table: TABLE III.Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarterending 2nd July, 1870.

TABLE III.

Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarter

ending 2nd July, 1870.

0 and under 1.1 and under 5.5 and under 20.20 and under 40.40 and under 60.60 and under 80.80 and upwards.Total Males, 50 Females, 35Corresponding Quarter of 1869.
120212133178575
London Hospital35226345181Males, 108113
Females, 49
157