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 II.
Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ended 29th Dec., 1877.
Sub-districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | j Diarrhœa. | Fever. | Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhœa. | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 16 | ||
Mile End New Town | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | Workhouse. |
Whitechapel North | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
Whitechapel Church | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 13 | Hospital. |
Goodman's Fields | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||
Aldgate | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
Totals | 3 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 48 | |
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1877. | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 38 |
Three deaths from small-pox of patients belonging to this District occurred in the SmallPox
Hospital at Homerton. No death from fever occurred in the Fever Hospital,
although 10 cases were sent from this District.
TABLE III.
Showing Sub-districts, Enumerated Population, Total Births, and Deaths from all causes-
Deaths under 1 year of age, 1 and under 5 years, and above 60 years; Deaths from Violence, Inquest cases, and Deaths in Workhouse and London Hospital, for the Quarter ended 29th Dec., 1877.
Sub-districts. | Enumerated Population in 1871. | j Births. | Deaths. | Under 1 year of age. | 1, and under 5 years. | Persons aged 60 years and upwards. | Violence. | Inquest cases. | Deaths in Public Institutions. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 22499 | 205 | 94 | 35 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
Mile End New Town | 15550 | 146 | 132 | 30 | 17 | 36 | 5 | 16 | 61 |
Whitechapel North | 11597 | 114 | 52 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Whitechapel Church | 7322 | 62 | 236 | 17 | 24 | 36 | 45 | 53 | 204 |
Goodman's Fields | 10381 | 97 | 45 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
Aldgate | 9224 | 60 | 54 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 0 |
Totals | 76573 | 684 | 613 | 121 | 90 | 103 | 59 | 95 | 266 |