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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Whitechapel 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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| LOCALITIES. | YEARS. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 1872 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | |
| Number of Small | -pox cases in each year. | ||||||
| Brought forward | 192 | 32 | 161 | 61 | 13 | 59 | 181 |
| Spring gardens | 1 | 18 | 1 | ||||
| Steward street | 1 | ||||||
| Samuel street | 2 | 1 | |||||
| „ court | 2 | ||||||
| Spital street | 2 | ||||||
| Sandys row | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Swan court (Middlesex st.) | 1 | 4 | |||||
| Spicer street | 2 | ||||||
| Swan court (Mansell street) | 2 | ||||||
| Shorters rents, (W.C.) | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Sugar Loaf court, (W.C.) | 4 | ||||||
| Spectacle alley | 1 | ||||||
| South street, (W.C.) | 1 | ||||||
| Tenter street (C.C.) | 1 | ||||||
| Thomas street | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Tilley street | 1 | ||||||
| Tenter street (North) | 1 | ||||||
| Tongue yard (Little) | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Thrawl street | 4 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Tenter street (South) | 2 | ||||||
| Underwood street | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Upper East Smithfield | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Vine court, (W.C.) | 2 | ||||||
| „ court (C.C.) | 1 | 3 | |||||
| ,, yard | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Wellington street | 1 | 4 | |||||
| Whites row (C.C ) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | |||
| „ row, (W.C.) | 2 | 4 | |||||
| White Lion street | 1 | ||||||
| Wilk street | I | ||||||
| Wentworth street | 3 | 1 | 8 | ||||
| Wheeler street | 2 | ||||||
| Wood street | 1 | ||||||
| White Bear court | 2 | ||||||
| Waltons court | 3 | ||||||
| Wells place (W.C.) | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Wageners buildings | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Whitechapel road | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |||
| „ High street | 1 | ||||||
| Wilsons place | 1 | 4 | |||||
| Well street | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| W ellclose square | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Wells row | 1 | ||||||
| Total No.of cases in each yr. | 226 | 39 | 191 | 104 | 13 | G8 | 233 |
It appears from the preceding Table, which has been prepared
by Mr. Inspector Wrack, that the greatest number of small-pox cases
which occurred in any locality in the District, was in Albert Street,
Mile End New Town, and Spring Gardens, a place where there are
thirty houses, having a population of about 210. Special Reports
of the outbreaks were prepared by the Medical Officer of Health, and
printed in the Reports for the Quarters ending June, 1877, and
March, 1878.