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 31st December, 1864
Districts | SmallPox | Measels | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Hooping Cough | Diarrhoea | Fever | Total | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artillery | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |
Spitalfields | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 20 | |
Mile End New Town | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 24 | Workhouse |
Whitechapel, North | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 16 | |
Whitechapel Church | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | Hospital |
Goodman's Fields | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | |
Aldgate | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | |
Total | 1 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 13 | 16 | 31 | 93 | |
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding quarter, 1863 | 6 | 4 | 46 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 52 | 128 |
TABLE III—Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 31st December, 1864
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, 50 Females, 41 | Corresponding Quarter of 1863 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Workhouse | 12 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 25 | 29 | 4 | 91 | 81 |
London Hospital | 0 | 11 | 18 | 29 | 35 | 17 | 0 | Males, 75 Females, 35 110 | 118 |