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 March, 1879.
Sub-districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Fever. | Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhea. | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
Mile End New Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | Workhouse. |
Whitechapel North | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | |
Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | Hospital. |
Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Totals | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33 | |
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1878. | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 35 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 73 |
No 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.
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 March, 1879.
Sub-districts. | Enumerated Population in 1871. | 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 | 235 | 124 | 35 | 23 | 28 | 5 | 20 | 5 |
Mile End New Town | 15550 | 214 | 183 | 27 | 20 | 64 | 7 | 19 | 108 |
Whitechapel North | 11597 | 97 | 65 | 21 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
Whitechapel Church | 7322 | 74 | 191 | 15 | 17 | 35 | 29 | 30 | 150 |
Goodman's Fields | 10381 | 90 | 47 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Aldgate | 9224 | 43 | 37 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
Totals | 76573 | 753 | 647 | 115 | 94 | 158 | 45 | 85 | 263 |