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Whitechapel 1877

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Table: TABLE VI.Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District daring the last 15 years.

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TABLE VI.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District daring the last 15 years.

Name of Disease		* 1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	* 1869	1870	1871	1872	* 1873	1874	1875	1876	1877
Small Pox		69	5	22	44.	40	11	1	56	159	19	1	1	2	8	23
Measles		26	137	28	139	33	69	71	36	42	23	44	33	40	16	96
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria		200	50	80	76	26	48	208	59	25	96	24	199	51	18	28
Hooping Cough		52	74	97	94	72	55	113	50	43	9	79	16	61	57	44
Diarrhœa		114	109	122	119	100	138	97	107	125	99	113	76	93	103	89
Fever		158	170	167	100	82	109	95	52	40	26	44	47	30	27	26
Cholera &Cho leraic-Diaha.		5	2	⁴	904	9	10	7	6	3	5	8	3	0	0	0
Totals		624	547	520	1476	362	440	592	366	437	277	313	375	277	229	306
London	Fever	2802	3689	3232	2681	2174	2483	2211	2049	1755	1003	1548	1553	1282	1206	1240
	Searlla. & Diph.	5799	3806	2614	2316	1836	3418	6162	6306	2220	1063	932	3037	4038	2673	1776
	Small Pox.	2012	537	646	1388	1339	606	273	958	7834	1532	114	56	75	739	2544

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The deaths from Fever, in the Fever Hospital belonging to the Asylum Board, of patients
removed from this District were 4, and those from Small-pox were 25 The deaths, therefore,
from epidemic diseases in this District were 335 for the year 1877.

Table: TABLE VII.Showing the cases of Epidemic Diseases among the pauper population in the Whitechapel District during the last 15 years.

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TABLE VII.

Showing the cases of Epidemic Diseases among the pauper population in the Whitechapel District during the last 15 years.

Name of Disease	* 1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	* 1869	1870	1871	1872	* 1873	1874	1875	1876	1877
Small Pox	253	21	86	261	254	93	5	302	625	60	2	1	0	19	125
Measles	80	482	51	679	155	323	212	257	178	76	128	59	32	32	64
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria	305	156	164	197	60	54	311	97	32	16	22	161	17	6	8
Hooping Cough	169	217	280	217	219	144	308	140	102	94	86	30	44	15	24
Diarrhœa	1108	1127	1342	1664	1471	1631	1033	1097	590	283	212	150	101	120	61
Fever	464	295	573	343	308	586	385	325	201	19	126	84	24	34	17
Cholera & Cho-leraic-Diaha.	1	4	4	58	5	8	1	4	2	3	2	0	0	0	1
Totals	2380	2302	2500	3419	2472	2839	2255	2222	1730	551	578	485	218	226	300

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The cases of Febricula have been 83. In the preceding year the cases of Febricula were 86.
* In the above Tables the years 1863, 1869, and 1873, consist of 53 weeks.

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Whitechapel 1877

Table: TABLE VI.Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District daring the last 15 years.

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Table: TABLE VII.Showing the cases of Epidemic Diseases among the pauper population in the Whitechapel District during the last 15 years.

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