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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 28th December, 1861
| Districts | Small-Pox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Hooping-Cough | Diarrhrea | Fever | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Artillery | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| Mile End New Town | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 10 |
| Whitechapel North | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 |
| Goodman's Fields | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 7 |
| Aldgate | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 55 | 45 | |
| 8 | 1 | 32 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 27 | 100 | |||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1860 | 5 | 15 | 19 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 81 | ||||||||