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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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Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 30th Dec., 1871.
| Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet-Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Fever. | Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhœa. | Total. Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artillery | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Spitalfields | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Mile End New Town | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 15 Workhouse. | |
| Whitechapel, North | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 Hospital. | ||
| Goodman's Fields | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | ||
| Aldgate | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 16 | |
| Totals | 23 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 80 |
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1870. | 50 | 5 | 23 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 19 | 0 | 124 |
One death from Pyaemia and 3 from Erysipelas occurred in the Whitechapel Church sub-District.
During this quarter there were 4 deaths from Fever in the Fever Hospital, and 12 deaths smallpox
in the Small Pox Hospitals.
TABLE III.
Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarter ending 30th Dec., 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, 47 Females, 32 | Corresponding Quarter of 1870. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workhouse | 4 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 18 | 32 | 4 | 79 | 76 |
| London Hospital | 1 | 7 | 16 | 64 | 47 | 18 | 1 | Males, 95 | 155 |
| Females, 59 | |||||||||
| 154 |