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Whitechapel 1879

[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 Disease185618571858185918601861186218631864186518661867186818691870187118721873187418751876187718781879
Small Pox3134602128336952244401115615919112823117
Measles126078318127153261372813933697136422344334016963249
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria454387965970912005080762648208592596241995118282489
Hooping Cough6489117504989625274979472551135043979166157448473
Diarrhœa81139108141671016911410912211910013897107125991137693103898967
Fever188117104936965250158170167100821699552402644473027262933
Cholera&Cho leraic-Diaha.0106514552490491076358300000
Totals4214615044763473846636245475201476362440592366437277313375277229306269318
LondonFever267422031902179613021754363523023689323226812174248322112049175510031548155212821206124013611084
Scarlta. & Diph.17951587411841972457305841945799380626142316183634186162630622201063932303740382673177623503212
Small Pox522154247115687721534520125376461388133960627395878341532114567573925441416454

* 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.