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Whitechapel 1874

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE IV.Showing the Deatha from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 3rd October, 1874.

TABLE IV.

Showing the Deatha from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 3rd October, 1874.

Districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhoea;Total.Remarks.
Artillery0060063015
Spitalfields11901103227
Mile End New Town001302153023Workhouse.
Whitechapel, North021500151033
Whitechapel Church0051053014Hospital.
Goodman's fields01130033121
Aldgate00170052024
Totals14781359183167
Deaths from Epidenlics for the corresponding Quarter, 1873.03631087136128

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The deaths from Pytemia were 9, from Erysipelas 3, from Croup 13, from Rheumatism 1,
from Dysentery 1, from Cerebro-spinat Fever 1, from Mumps 1, from Quinsey 1, from
Puerperal Fever 1, and from malignant pustule 1. Five deaths from Fever of persons belonging
to this District and 2 from Scarlet-fever occurred in the Fever and Small-pox Hospitals.

Table: TABLE V.Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 3rd October, 1874.

TABLE V.

Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 3rd October, 1874.

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, 54 Females, 45Corresponding Quarter of 1873.
Wokhouse6218161414854
London Hospital312215152140Males, 103 Females, 50153144