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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 1872
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE II.
Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 29th June, 1872.
| Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Fever. | Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhoea. | Total. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artillery | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Spitalfields | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 15 | |
| Mile End New Town | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | Workhouse. |
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
| Whitechapel Church | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | Hospital. |
| Goodman's Fields | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 14 | |
| Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Totals | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 53 | |
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1872. | 42 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 85 |
Six deaths from Pyaemia occurred in the Whitechapel Church sub-district, and 2 from
Rheumatism; I death from Pyaemia occurred in the Mile End New Town sub-district.
TABLE III.
Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarter ending 29th June, 1872.
| 0 and under 1. | I and under 5. | 5 and under 20. | 20 and under 40. | 40 and under 60. | 60 and under 80. | 80 and upwards. | Total. Males, 40 Females, 29 | Corresponding Quarter of 1871. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workhouse | 8 | 1 | 2 | 17 | l6 | 23 | 2 | 69 | 77 |
| London Hospital | 4 | 8 | 21 | 43 | 53 | 20 | 1 | Males, 98 Females, 52 | 126 |
| 150 |