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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 28th Dee., 1872.
| Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Fever. | Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhœa. | Total. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artillery | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Mile End New Town | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | Workhouse. |
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 | Hospital. |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
| Totals | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 41 | |
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1871. | 23 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 80 | |
| Four deaths from Pyæmia, 9 from Erysipelas and 3 from Puerperal Fever occurred in the District. Three deaths from Typhoid Fever, occurred in the London Hospital, two of which were of non residents. | ||||||||||
TABLE III.
Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarter ending 28th Dec., 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. | Total Males, 23 Females, 32 | Corresponding Quarter of 1871. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workhouse | 1 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 24 | 4 | 55 | 79 |
| London Hospital | 1 | 9 | 15 | 54 | 56 | 19 | 1 | Males, 118 Females, 37 | 154 |
| 155 | |||||||||