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 VI.
Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District daring the last 24 years.
Name of Disease | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | |
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Small Pox | 31 | 3 | 4 | 60 | 21 | 28 | 33 | 69 | 5 | 22 | 44 | 40 | 11 | 1 | 56 | 159 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 23 | 11 | 7 | |
Measles | 12 | 60 | 78 | 31 | 81 | 27 | 153 | 26 | 137 | 28 | 139 | 33 | 69 | 71 | 36 | 42 | 23 | 44 | 33 | 40 | 16 | 96 | 32 | 49 | |
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria | 45 | 43 | 87 | 96 | 59 | 70 | 91 | 200 | 50 | 80 | 76 | 26 | 48 | 208 | 59 | 25 | 96 | 24 | 199 | 51 | 18 | 28 | 24 | 89 | |
Hooping Cough | 64 | 89 | 117 | 50 | 49 | 89 | 62 | 52 | 74 | 97 | 94 | 72 | 55 | 113 | 50 | 43 | 9 | 79 | 16 | 61 | 57 | 44 | 84 | 73 | |
Diarrhœa | 81 | 139 | 108 | 141 | 67 | 101 | 69 | 114 | 109 | 122 | 119 | 100 | 138 | 97 | 107 | 125 | 99 | 113 | 76 | 93 | 103 | 89 | 89 | 67 | |
Fever | 188 | 117 | 104 | 93 | 69 | 65 | 250 | 158 | 170 | 167 | 100 | 82 | 169 | 95 | 52 | 40 | 26 | 44 | 47 | 30 | 27 | 26 | 29 | 33 | |
Cholera&Cho leraic-Diaha. | 0 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 904 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Totals | 421 | 461 | 504 | 476 | 347 | 384 | 663 | 624 | 547 | 520 | 1476 | 362 | 440 | 592 | 366 | 437 | 277 | 313 | 375 | 277 | 229 | 306 | 269 | 318 | |
London | Fever | 2674 | 2203 | 1902 | 1796 | 1302 | 1754 | 3635 | 2302 | 3689 | 3232 | 2681 | 2174 | 2483 | 2211 | 2049 | 1755 | 1003 | 1548 | 1552 | 1282 | 1206 | 1240 | 1361 | 1084 |
Scarlta. & Diph. | 1795 | 1587 | 4118 | 4197 | 2457 | 3058 | 4194 | 5799 | 3806 | 2614 | 2316 | 1836 | 3418 | 6162 | 6306 | 2220 | 1063 | 932 | 3037 | 4038 | 2673 | 1776 | 2350 | 3212 | |
Small Pox | 522 | 154 | 247 | 1156 | 877 | 215 | 345 | 2012 | 537 | 646 | 1388 | 1339 | 606 | 273 | 958 | 7834 | 1532 | 114 | 56 | 75 | 739 | 2544 | 1416 | 454 |
* In the above Table the years 1863, 1869, and 1873, consist of 53 weeks.
In the column of deaths for 1879, the deaths from small-pox and from fever, which occurred in the Hospitals, are included.