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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 1862
[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 29th March, 1862.
| Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet-Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough | Diarrhœa | Fever. | Total. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Artillery | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 |
| Mile End New Town | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 11 | 26 | 18 |
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Aldgate | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 23 | 46 | 62 |
| 3 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 21 | 3 | 53 | 108 | |||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1861 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 26 | 7 | 8 | 83 | ||||||||