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 July, 1881.
Sub-districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria. | HoopingCough. | Diarrhoea. | Fever. | Cholera 4 Choleraic Diarrlœa. | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | Workhouse. |
Mile End New Town | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
Whitechapel North | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | |
Whitechapel Church | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | Hospital. |
Goodman's Fields | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
Aldgate | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | |
Totals | 3 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 62 | |
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1880. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 27 |
Fourteen deaths from small-pox, of patients sent from this District, occurred in the
Small-pox Hospital, thus making 17 deaths from small-pox of persons resident in the
District.
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 July, 1881.
Sub-districts. | Enumerated Population in 1881. | | 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 | 22586 | 197 | 95 | 34 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 2 |
Mile End New Town | 15474 | 168 | 144 | 28 | 20 | 38 | 5 | 19 | 67 |
Whitechapel North | 10001 | 109 | 43 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Whitechapel Church | 7489 | 72 | 163 | 12 | 28 | 21 | 25 | 25 | 140 |
Goodman's Fields | 9708 | 81 | 44 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Aldgate | 6092 | 47 | 40 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
Totals | 71350 | 674 | 534 | 110 | 105 | 83 | 40 | 71 | 209 |