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 September 1876.
Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Fever. | Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhea; | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 19 | |
Mile End New Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 21 | Workhouse. |
Whitechapel North | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
Whitechapel Church | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 15 | Hospital. |
Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 13 | |
Totals | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 80 | 4 | 0 | 94 | |
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1875. | 0 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 57 | 6 | 0 | 98 |
Two deaths from fever of patients belonging to this District occurred in the Asylum
District Fever Hospital at Homerton, thus increasing the total deaths from 5 to 6.
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 September, 1876.
Sub-districts. | Enumerated Population in 1871. | Births. | Deaths. | Under 1 year of age. | Persons aged 60 ye?rs and upwards. | Violence. | Inquest cases. | Deaths in Public Institutions. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 22499 | 179 | 87 | 35 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 4 |
Mile End New Town | 15550 | 180 | 119 | 39 | 22 | 2 | 13 | 59 |
Whitechapel North | 11597 | 97 | 50 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
Whitechapel Church | 7322 | 71 | 212 | 22 | 24 | 49 | 58 | 167 |
Goodman's Fields | 10381 | 79 | 41 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Aldgate | 9224 | 34 | 53 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
Totals | 640 | 562 | 149 | 67 | 67 | 97 | 230 |