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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 1898

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 1898

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Table: TABLE VII. ( Continued)

TABLE VII. ( Continued)

Locality.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Erysipelas.Scarlatina.Enteric Fever.Puerperal Fever.Continued Fever.Total No. of Cases.Total No. of Deaths from all Causes.
Upper Well-alley........................2
Union-terrace......2............2...
Upper East Smithfield1..................1...
Walker-street......510.........156
Walter-street......11.........26
Wapping-wall1......4.........64
Wallwood-street........................5
Waterloo-street........................2
Warton-place1..................17
Wellclose-square........................2
West India Dock-road1......1.........29
West Garden-bdgs.........................3
White Horse-street1......11......326
White's-rents......1............12
Willow-row.........1............13
Williams-place........................1
Wilson-place........................1
Wright's-buildings........................2
White Hall-place.........1.........1...
York-buildings.........1.........16
York-place........................2
York-road........................9
York-square......1............11
York-street1......11......32

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In addition, 5 persons who were found drowned in the district were
unknown, and had to he included in our list of deaths. 33 persons died
in Lunatic Asylums and other outlying institutions; no address given,
except that they were formerly removed from the Stepney Union.