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 11.
Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ended
2nd April, 1881.
Sub-districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Fever. | Cholera 4 Choleraie Diarrhea. | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 18 | |
Mile End New Town | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | Workhouse. |
Whitechapel North | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | |
Whitechapel Church | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 11 | Hospital. |
Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Aldgate | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
5 | 33 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 58 | ||
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1880. | 3 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50 |
Nine deaths from small-pox, of patients sent from this District, occurred in the
Small-pox Hospital, thus making 14 deaths from small-pox of persons resident in the
District. Two out of the 5 deaths from small-pox occurred in the London Hospital,
and were of non-residents.
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 2nd April, 1881.
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 | 195 | 106 | 19 | 33 | 14 | 8 | 15 | 4 |
Mile End New Town | 15550 | 182 | 188 | 24 | 24 | 66 | 7 | 36 | 102 |
Whitechapel North | 11597 | 105 | 50 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Whitechapel Church | 7322 | 58 | 223 | 15 | 11 | 32 | 44 | 60 | 174 |
Goodman's Fields | 10381 | 107 | 44 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
Aldgate | 9224 | 47 | 27 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Totals | 76573 | 694 | 638 | 86 | 99 | 135 | 65 | 120 | 280 |