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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 1861
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE III—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District, for the Three Months ending on tile 20th June, 1861
| Districts | Small-Pox | Measles | Scarlet-Fever | Diphtheria | Hooping-Cough | Diarrhœa | Fever | Total. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | E | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Artillery | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Spitalfields | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | (1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | !4 |
| Ahle End New Town | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 |
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | 0 | 1 | (1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Aldgate | 0 | 0' | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 |
| 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 30 | 44 | ||
| 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 14 | 13 | 74 | |||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1860 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 64 | ||||||||
| One of the deaths from fever was that of a non-resident | ||||||||||||||||
TABLE IV—Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse
| 0 and under 1 | 1 and under 5 | 5 and under 20 | 20 and under 40 | 40 and under 60 | 60 and under 80 | 80 and upwards | Total Males 33 Femls26 | Corresponding Quarter of 1860 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 59 | 70 |