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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
Limehouse 1897
Report on the sanitary condition of the Limehouse District (comprising the Parishes of Limehouse, Shadwell, and Wapping, and the Hamlet of Ratcliff) for the year 1897
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TABLE V. —TABLE OF DEATHS during the Year 1897, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Limehouse, classified according to D iseases, A ges and L ocalities.
| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. | Mortality from All Causes, at subjoined ages. | Mortality from subjoined Causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.) | A tall ages. | Under 1 Year. | 1 and under 5 | 5 and under 15 | 15 and under 25 | 25 and under 65 | 65 and upwards. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | |
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | Small Fox | Scarlatina | Diphtheria | Membra-nousCroup | Fevers. | Cholera | Erysipelas | Measles | Whooping Cough | Diarrhoea and Dysentery | Rheumatic Fever | Phthisis | Bronchitis Pneumonia and Pleurisy | Heart Disease | Influenza | Injraies | All Other Diseases | Total | ||||
| Typhus | Enteric or Typhoid | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Limehouse | 536 | 204 | 95 | 15 | 17 | 131 | 74 | Under 5 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 25 | 28 | 36 | - | 1 | 43 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 136 | 288 |
| 5 upwds. | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 36 | 46 | 37 | 1 | 22 | 101 | 248 | ||||||||
| Ratcliff | 244 | 73 | 52 | 16 | 11 | 67 | 25 | Under 5 | - | 2 | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 1 | 14 | - | 1 | 23 | 1 | - | 3 | 65 | 126 |
| 5 upwds. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 17 | 20 | 19 | - | 10 | 49 | 118 | ||||||||
| Shadwell and Wapping | 169 | 43 | 49 | 3 | 5 | 51 | 18 | Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | 4 | 10 | - | 4 | 16 | 1 | - | 4 | 29 | 89 |
| 5 upwds. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 77 | ||||||||
| East London Children's Hospital | 342 | 178 | 134 | 23 | - | 5 | 2 | Under 5 | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 18 | 74 | 7 | - | 5 | 199 | 312 |
| 5 upwds. | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 1 | 6 | - | 3 | 11 | 30 | ||||||||
| Totals | 1291 | 498 | 330 | 57 | 33 | 254 | 119 | Under 5 | - | 3 | 18 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 53 | 34 | 62 | - | 2 | 156 | 14 | 1 | 16 | 429 | 815 |
| 5 upwds. | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 79 | 83 | 71 | 2 | 41 | 186 | 473 | ||||||||
| The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto | 446 | 66 | 33 | 18 | 32 | 201 | 96 | Under 5 | - | 7 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 8 | - | - | - | 4 | 12 | - | 1 | 4 | 51 | 99 |
| 5 upwds. | - | 1 | 3 | — | — | 3 | - | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 66 | 49 | 51 | 1 | 23 | 144 | 347 | ||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 269 | 137 | 99 | 17 | 1 | 13 | 2 | Under 5 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 5 | - | 13 | 60 | 7 | - | 2 | 143 | 236 |
| 5 upwds. | — | — | - | - | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | 6 | - | 11 | 10 | 33 | ||||||||