Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE VIII.
Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District during the last 15 years.
Name of Disease | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | |
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Small Pox | 3 | 4 | 60 | 21 | 28 | 33 | 69 | 5 | 22 | 44 | 40 | 11 | 1 | 56 | 159 | |
Measles | 60 | 78 | 31 | 81 | 27 | 153 | 26 | 137 | 28 | 130 | 33 | 69 | 71 | 36 | 42 | |
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria | 43 | 87 | 96 | 59 | 70 | 91 | 200 | 50 | 80 | 76 | 26 | 48 | 208 | 59 | 25 | |
Hooping Cough | 89 | 117 | 50 | 49 | 98 | 62 | 52 | 97 | 94 | 72 | 55 | 113 | 50 | 43 | ||
Diarrhoea | 139 | 108 | 141 | 67 | 101 | 69 | 114 | 109 | 122 | 119 | 100 | 138 | 97 | 107 | 125 | |
117 | 104 | 93 | 69 | 65 | 250 | 158 | 170 | 167 | 100 | 82 | 109 | 95 | 52 | 40 | ||
Cholera & Cho leraic-Diaha. | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 904 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 3 | |
Total | 461 | 504 | 476 | 347 | 393 | 663 | 714 | 547 | 520 | 1476 362 | 440 | 592 | 366 | 437 | ||
London | Fever | 2203 | 1902 | 179G | 1302 | 1754 | 3635 | 2802 | 3689 | 3232 | 2681 | 2174 | 2483 | 2211 | 2049 | 1755 |
Scarlta. & Diph. | 1587 | 4118 | 4197 | 2457 | 3058 | 4194 | 5799 | 3806 | 2614 | 2316 | 1836 | 3418 | 6162 | 6306 | 2220 | |
Small Pox | 154 | 247 | 1156 | 877 | 215 | 345 | 2012 | 537 | 646 | 1388 | 1339 | 606 | 273 | 958 | 7834 |
TABLE IX.
Showing the cases of Epidemic Diseases among the pauper population in the Whiteehapel District during the last 15 years.
Name of Disease | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 |
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Small Pox | 6 | 20 | 242 | 65 | 86 | 113 | 253 | 21 | 86 | 261 | 254 | 93 | 5 | 302 | 625 |
Measles | 266 | 427 | 179 | 520 | 70 | 525 | 80 | 482 | 51 | 679 | 155 | 323 | 212 | 257 | 178 |
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria | 49 | 146 | 175 | 93 | 109 | 118 | 305 | 156 | 164 | 197 | 60 | 54 | 311 | 97 | 32 |
Hooping Cough | 150 | 230 | 146 | 83 | 388 | 153 | 169 | 217 | 280 | 217 | 219 | 144 | 308 | 140 | 102 |
Diarrhœa | 1324 | 946 | 209 | 773 | 1418 | 1085 | 1108 | 1127 | 1342 | 1664 | 1471 | 1631 | 1033 | 1097 | 590 |
Fever | 1441 | 590 | 411 | 190 | 109 | 822 | 464 | 295 | 573 | 343 | 308j | 586 | 385 | 325 | 201 |
Cholera & Choleraic-Diaha. | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 58 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Total | 3252 | 2359 | 1363 | 1725 | 2180 | 2817 | 2380 | 2302 | 2500 | 3419 | 2469 | 2839 | 2255 | 2222 | 1730 |