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Whitechapel 1872

[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 ending30th March, 1872.

TABLE II.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending30th March, 1872.

Districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet F ever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever.Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhea.Total.Remarks.
Artillery000010001
Spitalfields2110901014
Mile End New Town12001402019Workhouse.
Whitechapel, North2401710015
Whitechapel Church000030104Hospital.
Goodman's Fields111030107
Aldgate500040009
Total118214115069
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1871.83480168110130

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Two deaths from Pyæmia occurred in the Whitechapel Church sub-District, and 4 from
Rheumatism.
The two deaths in the Spitalfields sub-district from Small Pox were of children of the
same family, aged respectively 5 and 7 years, neither of whom had been vaccinated.

Table: TABLE III.Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarter ending 30th March, 1872.

TABLE III.

Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarter ending 30th March, 1872.

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.TotalCorresponding Quarter of 1871.
Males, 46
Females, 29
Workhouse60418182727593
London Hospital02235349160Males, 101143
Females, 42
143