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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 1871

[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 1st July, 1871.

TABLE II.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 1st July, 1871.

Districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet-Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Total.Remarks.
Artillery60000017Workhouse.
Spitalfields40001218
Mile End New Town1521022325
Whitechapel, North1110041017Hospital.
Whitechapel Church10003116
Goodman's Fields270012214
Aldgate34000018
Totals421410118985
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1870.0126l20121566

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There were six deaths from Pyemia in the London Hospital.

Table: TABLE III.Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarter ending 1st July, 1871.

TABLE III.

Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarter ending 1st July, 1871.

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, 45 Females, 32Corresponding Quarter of 1870.
Workhouse63115222467785
London Hospital07154744121Males, 93157
Females, 33
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