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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 the 428th Sept, 1861
| Districts | Small-Pox | Measles | Scarlet | -Fever | Diphtheria | Hooping-Cough | Diarrlicea | Fever | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Artillery | 0 | 0 | 0 | I | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 |
| Mile End Hew Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 9 |
| Whitechapel Church Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 16 | |
| Aldgate | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 12 |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 6 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 26 | 42 | 8 9 | 56 | 76 | |||
| 5 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 22 | 68 | 17 | 132 | |||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, I860 | 2 | 39 | 8 | 0 | 16 | 35 | 11 | 11! | ||||||||
TABLE IY—Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse
| 0 and nder 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 37 Femls23 | Corresponding Quarter of 1860 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 26 | 2 | 60 | 51 |