Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE II.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 2nd January, 1864 (14 weeks).
Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measels. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-cough | Diarrhoea. | Fever. | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artillery | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
Spitalfields | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 21 | |
Mile End New Town | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 42 | Workhouse. |
Whitechapel, North | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 14 | |
Whitechapel Church | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | Hospital. |
Goodman's Fields | 1 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 23 | |
Aldgate | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 13 | |
Total | 6 | 4 | 46 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 52 | 128 | |
Death from Epidemics for the corresponding quarter, 1862 | 17 | 33 | 29 | 2 | 15 | 22 | 51 | 169 |
TABLE III.—Showing the Ages at death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 2nd January, 1864 (14 weeks).
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, 52 Females, 29 | Corresponding Quarter of 1862. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Workhouse | 10 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 24 | 21 | 4 | 81 | 69 |
London Hospital | 0 | 13 | 19 | 35 | 37 | 14 | 0 | Males, 77 Females, 41 118 | 93 |