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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 1858
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE XVII.
Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District during the years
1856 and 1857.
| 1856. | 1857. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Districts. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough | Diarrhœa. | Typhus, | Total. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Typhus. | Total. |
| Artillery | — | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 27 |
| Spitalfields | 3 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 10 | 22 | 58 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 52 |
| Mile End New T. | 8 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 18 | 63 | 106 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 36 | 88 |
| Whitechapel N | 10 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 57 | 99 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 20 | 25 | 34 | 93 |
| Whitechapel Ch. | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 41 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 15 | 50 |
| Goodmans Fields | 5 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 39 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 29 | 8 | 69 |
| Aldgate | 2 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 19 | 9 | 58 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 27 | 11 | 62 |
| 31 | 12 | 45 | 64 | 81 | 188 | 421 | 3 | 60 | 43 | 89 | 139 | 117 | 451 | |
TABLE XVIII.
Showing the Mortality in the Workhouses and Hospitals in the District during 1856 & 1857
| Whitechapel Workhouse. | Christ Church Workhouse. | London Hospital. | Military Hospital. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1856—199 | 1856—l 54 | 1856—297 | 1856—0 |
| 1857—165 | 1857—107 | 1857—338 | 1857—2 |
TABLE XVIII.
Showing the Mortality in the Workhouses and Hospitals in the District during 1856 & 1857
Whitechapel
Workhouse.
Christ Church
Workhouse.
London
Hospital.
Military
Hospital.
1856—199
1856—l 54
1856—297
1856—0
1857—165
1857—107
1857—338
1857—2