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 30th December, 1876.
Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet F ever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Fever. | Cholera & Choleraic ' Diarrhoea. | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | Workhouse. |
Mile End New Town | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
Whitechapel North | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | Hospital. |
Whitechapel Church | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | |
Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
Totals | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 38 | |
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1875. | 2 | 22 | 12 | 3 | 24 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 86 |
Six deaths from small-pox of patients belonging to this District occurred in the Small
Pox Hospital at Homerton, and 1 in the Fever Hospital,
TABLE III.
Showing Sub-districts, Enumerated Population, Total Births, and Deaths from all causes— Deaths under 1 year of age and above 60 years ; Deaths from Violence, Inquest cases, and Deaths in Workhouse and London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 30th December, 1876.
Sub-districts. | Enumerated Population in 1871. | j Births. | Deaths. | Under 1 year of age. | Persons aged 60 ye?rs and upwards. | Violence. | Inquest cases. | Deaths in Public Institutions. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 22499 | 218 | 108 | 40 | 17 | 8 | 16 | 3 |
Mile End New Town | 15550 | 179 | 142 | 29 | 45 | 8 | 18 | 81 |
Whitechapel North | 11597 | 101 | 39 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
Whitechapel Church | 7322 | 59 | 235 | 17 | 20 | 44 | 4,6 | 211 |
Goodman's Fields | 10381 | 96 | 36 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
Aldgate | 9224 | 60 | 46 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
Totals | 713 | 600 | 123 | 101 | 67 | 97 | 295 |