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Whitechapel 1871
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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District who died in the small-pox hospitals; the total number of which,
for the last three quarters, was 38; viz: 24, 12, and 2 for each quarter
respectively. The total deaths therefore which have occurred in this District
during the last 9 months have been 213, and for the whole of London 6241.
The following return shows the progress of small-pox in this District from the commencement of the epidemic exclusive of the deaths in the small-pox hospitals.
| Dates. | Cases among the Pauper population. | Deaths among all classes in the District. | Dates. | Cases among the Pauper population. | Deaths among all classes in the District. | Dates, | Cases among the Pauper population. | Deaths among all classes in the District. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 870. | 1871. | 1871. | ||||||
| Sept. 24 | 3 | 2 | Jan. 7 | 20 | 3 | April 22 | 17 | 7 |
| Oct. 1 | 5 | 0 | „ 14 | 24 | 4 | ,, 29 | 23 | 1 |
| „ 8 | 10 | 2 | „ 21 | 19 | 8 | May 6 | 7 | 4 |
| „ 15 | 16 | 0 | „ 28 | 30 | 6 | „ 13 | 4 | 1 |
| „ 22 | 13 | 3 | Feb. 4 | 33 | 8 | „ 20 | 23 | 5 |
| „ 29 | 7 | 3 | „ 11 | 25 | 10 | „ 27 | 13 | 6 |
| Nov. 5 | 14 | 0 | „ 18 | 31 | 9 | June 3 | 5 | 1 |
| „ 12 | 24 | 7 | „ 25 | 31 | 11 | „ 10 | 18 | 2 |
| „ 19 | 23 | 7 | Mar. 4 | 34 | 6 | „ 17 | 9 | 0 |
| „ 26 | 16 | 4 | „ 11 | 32 | 4 | „ 24 | 12 | 1 |
| Dec. 3 | 18 | 4 | „ 18 | 15 | 5 | July 1 | 10 | 4 |
| „ 10 | 25 | 5 | ,, 20 | 33 | 7 | |||
| „ 17 | 31 | 5 | April 1 | 15 | 3 | |||
| „ 24 | 25 | 6 | „ 8 | 19 | 5 | Totals | 764 | 176 |
| „ 31 | 18 | 3 | „ 15 | 14 | 5 | |||
The cases and deaths for each week since 1st July have been as
follows: for the week ending July 8th, 3 cases and 2 deaths, for that
ending July 15th, 6 cases no deaths, for that ending July 22nd, 7 cases and
2 deaths, and for that ending July 29th, 2 cases and 1 death.
Mr. Blackman has successfully performed during the quarter ending
June 25th, 357 primary and 538 secondary vaccinations, and has unsuccessfully
performed 2 primary and 10 secondary vaccinations.
As regards the two unsuccessful primary vaccinations, Mr, Blackman
remarks that one of the children had been vaccinated six times without
success ; and in the other case the child was once unsuccessfully vaccinated:
no opportunity was afforded to the vaccinator to vaccinate this child a second
time, the parents having removed from the District.
In my last report, it was stated, that out of the 871 primary vaccinations
which had been performed by Mr. Blackman, 8 had been returned as
unsuccessful. It would have been more correct to have said that there was
no record of the cases having been successful, as none of these cases returned
as unsuccessful had been seen again by Mr. Blackman after they
had been vaccinated. The total primary cases of successful vaccination
performed by Mr. Blackman during the last six months have been 1128.
The following table, showing the number of cases of small-pox admitted
into the wards erected in the Stone Yard by the Guardians, has been kindly
prepared for me by Mr. Ilott, the resident Medical Officer of the Workhouse,