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]
This page requires JavaScript
TABLE II.
Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ending
1st January, 1876.
Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Fever. | Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhœa. | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 19 | |
Mile End New Town | 0 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 22 | Workhouse. |
Whitechapel, North | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | Hospital. |
Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | |
Goodman's Fields | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | |
Aldgate | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
Total | 2 | 22 | 12 | 3 | 24 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 86 | |
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1875. | 0 | 5 | 59 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 88 |
TABLE III.
Showing Sub-districts. Enumerated Population, Total Births, and Deaths from all causes. Deaths under 1 year of age and above 60 years ; Deaths from Violence, Inquest cases, and Deaths in Workhouse and London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 1st January, 1876.
Sub-districts. | Enumerated Population in 1871. | Births. | Deaths. | Under 1 year of age. | Persons aged 60 ye?rs and upwards. | Violence. | Inquest cases. | Deaths in Public Institutions. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
98 | 33 | 14 | 4 | 13 | 0 | |||
Mile End New Town | 164 | 156 | 32 | 47 | 6 | 75 | ||
Whitechapel North ... | 11597 | 98 | 67 | 7 | 2 | 0 | ||
Whitechapel Church | 7322 | 57 | 223 | 9 | 30 | 40 | 48 | |
Goodman's Fields ... | 10381 | 99 | 62 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
9224 | 57 | 63 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
Totals......... | 653 | 659 | 131 | 113 | 56 | 98 | 262 |
???death from fever of a patient belonging to this District occurred in the Asylum District
Fever Hospital at Homerton.