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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 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE V.— Table showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 26th September, 1857.
| Districts. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough | Diarrhœa† | Typhus. | Total. | Grand Total. | Grand Total. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | 1857 | 1856 | |
| *Artillery | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 4 |
| Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 20 |
| Mile End New Town | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 23 | 36 | 30 |
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 22 | 33 | 18 |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 14 |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 32 | 17 |
| Aldgate | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 24 | 23 |
| 1 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 47 | 55 | 9 | 12 | 76 | 92 | 168 | 126 | |
| 2 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 102 | 21 | 168 | ||||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter of last year. | 7 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 63 | 33 | 126 | |||||||||
* In the Artillery District, the case of a child four months old, is thus registered by the Local Registrar:—" Varicella, Phlegmonous Inflammation
of the Thigh," which case is recorded by the Registrar General as Small Pox. I have inserted it under the head of Erysipelas.
t Five deaths from Cholera, in addition to some registered as " Choleraic Diarrhœa," are recorded in the Whitechapel District.