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 28th June, 1879,
Sub-districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Fever. | Cholers 4 Choleraic Diarrhœs. | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
Mile End New Town | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 13 | Workhouse. |
Whitechapel North | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | Hospital. |
Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | |
Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Totals | 0 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 52 | |
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1878. | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 50 |
Two deaths from small-pox of patients sent from this District, but not strictly belonging to
it (the particulars of which are recorded at pages 8 and 9 of this Report), occurred in the
Small-Pox Hospital. No death from fever occurred in the Fever Hospital, among
the 15 patients 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 28th June, 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 | 201 | 83 | 20 | 29 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 2 |
Mile End New Town | 15550 | 162 | 169 | 26 | 25 | 53 | 6 | 17 | 92 |
Whitechapel North | 11597 | 108 | 43 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Whitechapel Church | 7322 | 61 | 181 | 14 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 28 | 150 |
Goodman's Fields | 10381 | 78 | 38 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Aldgate | 9224 | 46 | 31 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
Totals | 76573 | 659 | 550 | 94 | 95 | 94 | 46 | 71 | 244 |