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 of Weekly Mortality, &c., in London and in the
Whitechapel District.
The following Table, taken from the Returns of the Registrar -General, shows the comparative results of the Quarter:—
Week ended | Deaths in London. | Deaths in Wchpl. District | Rainfall. | Mean Temperature of the air. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Diarrhoea. | Fever. | Small-pox | From all causes. | From Smallpox. | From all causes. | |||
Inches- | Degree. | |||||||
Jan. 4 | 9 | 37 | 13 | 1900 | 0 | 56 | 2.03 | 41.4 |
„ 11 | 9 | 26 | 12 | 1873 | 0 | 53 | 0.03 | 28.2 |
„ 18 | 13 | 27 | 12 | 1947 | 0 | 51 | 0.85 | 35.4 |
„ 25 | 13 | 25 | 24 | 1812 | 0 | 36 | 0.02 | 29.2 |
Feb. 1 | 16 | 17 | 28 | 1821 | 0 | 46 | 0.05 | 31.6 |
„ 8 | 13 | 20 | 17 | 1839 | 0 | 60 | 0.85 | 39.8 |
„ 15 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 1646 | 0 | 39 | 1.29 | 43.8 |
„ 22 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 1645 | 0 | 47 | 1.41 | 35.8 |
March 1 | 19 | 16 | 22 | 1771 | 0 | 41 | 0.25 | 34.8 |
„ 8 | 12 | 12 | 17 | 2023 | 0 | 57 | 0.08 | 42.1 |
„ 15 | 11 | 22 | 15 | 1989 | 0 | 43 | 0.19 | 42.1 |
„ 22 | 12 | 20 | 15 | 2085 | 0 | 53 | 0.04 | 43.6 |
„ 29 | 18 | 22 | 9 | 2078 | 0 | 65 | 0.17 | 35.5 |
VACCINATION.
WHITECHAPEL UNION.—Return of the number of Cases Vaccinated by the Public Vaccinator and the Medical Officer of the Workhouse, together with the number of Births Registered during the same quarters.
Quarter ending— | PUBLIC VACCINATOR | Workhouse. | Totals. | Births Registd. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Primary Cases. | Re-Vaccination. | Primary Cases. | Re-Vac-cination | Primary Cases. | Re-Vacci-ation. | ||
June, 1877 | 382 | 5 | 24 | 1 | 406 | 6 | 696 |
September | 336 | — | 26 | — | 362 | — | 607 |
December | 241 | 3 | 32 | — | 273 | 3 | 704 |
March, 1878 | 288 | 13 | 29 | — | 317 | 5 | 688 |
June | 443 | 5 | 46 | — | 489 | 6 | 672 |
September | 480 | 5 | 30 | 1 | 510 | 4 | 644 |
December, 1878 | 258 | 4 | 26 | — | 284 | 13 | 638 |
March, 1879 | 273 | 1 | 37 | — | 310 | 1 | 753 |
Totals | 2701 | 36 | 250 | 2 | 2951 | 38 | 5402 |