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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 IV
Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 1st October, 1870.
| Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet-Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | , Fever. | Cholera &Cho-leraic-Diarha. | Total. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artillery | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Spitalfields | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 19 | |
| Mile End New Town | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 5 | 3 | 39 | Workhouse. |
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 17 | |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 12 | Hospital. |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 20 | |
| Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 17 | |
| Totals | 6 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 78 | 10 | 6 | 133 | |
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1869. | 0 | 17 | 82 | 1 | 39 | 72 | 17 | 3 | 231 |
TABLE V.
Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarter
ending 1st October, 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, 32 Females, 34 | Corresponding Quarter of 1869. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workhouse | 9 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 25 | 5 | 66 | 63 |
| London Hospital | 1 | 11 | 18 | 52 | 50 | 26 | 1 | Males, 112 | 123 |
| Females, 47 | |||||||||
| 159 |