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Whitechapel 1881

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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TABLE VII.

Showing the cases of Epidemic Diseases among the pauper population in the Whitechapel District during the last 24 years.

Name of Disease1857185818591860186118621863186418651866186718681869187018711872187318741875187618771878187918801881
Small Pox620242658611325321862612549353026256021019125481037135
Measles26642717952070525804825167915532321225717876128593232641111540164
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria4914717693100118305156164197605431197321622161176818712115
Hooping Cough1502301468338815316921728021721914430814010294863044152416331230
Diarrhœa13249461209773141810851108112713421664147116311033109759028321215010112061769111997
Fever144159041119010982246429557334330858638532520119126842434171713912
Cholera&Choleraic-Diaha.160110114458581423200012001
Totals325223602364172521712817238023022500341924722839225522221730551578485218226300188333238454

* In the above Table the years 1863, 1869, and 1873, consist of 53 weeks.