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Mile End 1871

The fifteenth annual report of the Vestry of the Hamlet Mile End Old Town in the county of Middlesex

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TABLE VII.
The following Return of Small Pox cases Hospitals and
Workhouse from Mile End Old Town, from November the 9th, 1869,
to September 30th, 1871, was kindly supplied by Mr. Southwell,
Cleric to the Guardians.
East
District
West
District.
North
District
Total.
Hopitals.
Highgate
26
10
8
44
Hampstead
7
4
3
14
Homerton
40
70
63
173
Workhouse
69
40
49
158
142
124
123
389
TABLE VIII.
SMALL POX.
Number of Deaths in each of the Four Quaters ending March 25th, 1871.
Quarter
ending
1870.
Ages.
Males.
Femls
Totals.
Vaccinated
26
0 to 1
14
11
25
1 to 5
19
12
32
Unvaccnted.
47
5 to 10
5
5
10
June 6
10 to 20
2
1
3
Sept 14
20 to 30
9
3
12
30 to 40
2
2
4
Dec 37
Doubtful
16
40 to 50
1
2
3
above 60
0
1
1
53
36
89
1871
March 35
Totals
The death-rate from Small Pox was thus within a tract ion of 1 per
1000 population living in the Hamlet, or one-tenth per cent. It
is worthy of notice, according to my calculation, that the mortality
per cent, of the population from Small Pox, in the whole Metropolis,
for the same period, is relatively precisely the same as that
for Mile End Old Town.