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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Sub-districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Fever. | Cholera 4 Choleraic Diarrhœa. | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
Mile End New Town | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | Workhouse. |
Whitechapel North | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | Hospital. |
Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Totals | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 27 | |
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1879. | 0 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 52 |
Three deaths from small-pox, of patients sent from this District, occurred in the Small-Pox
Hospital. No death from fever occurred in the Fever Hospital of patients sent from this
District. The number of small-pox patients sent from this District was 13, and of fever 2.
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 3rd July, 1880.
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 | 173 | 82 | 30 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 2 |
Mile End New Town | 15550 | 181 | 122 | 23 | 7 | 27 | 3 | 14 | 67 |
Whitechapel North | 11597 | 116 | 51 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Whitechapel Church | 7322 | 58 | 166 | 14 | 18 | 24 | 33 | 40 | 133 |
Goodman's Fields | 10381 | 108 | 30 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Aldgate | 9224 | 40 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 76573 | 676 | 472 | 101 | 68 | 71 | 48 | 73 | 202 |