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 ended 31st March, 1883.
Sub-diutricts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhcea. | Fever. | Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhoea. | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | Workhouse. | |
Mile End New Town | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
Whitechapel North | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Hospital. |
Goodman's Fields | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Aldgate | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Totals | 0 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 28 | |
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1881. | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 59 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 88 |
One death from small-pox, of a patient sent from this District, occurred in the
Small-pox Hospital. One death from fever occurred in the Fever Hospital of a person
belonging to this District, thus making a total of 4 deaths from fever.
TABLE III.
Showing Sub-districts, Enumerated Population, Total Births, and Deaths from all cause3— Deaths under 1 year of age, 1 and under 5 years, aud above 60 years ; Deaths from Violence, Inquest cases, and Deaths in Workhouse aud London Hospital, for the Quarter ended 31st March, 1883.
Sub-districts. | Enumerated Population in 1881. | j Births. | Deaths. | Under 1 year of age. | 1, and under 5 years. | Persons aged 60 years and upwards. | Violence. | Inquest cases. | Deaths in Public Institutions. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 22585 | 179 | 86 | 25 | 14 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 4 |
Mile End New Town | 15473 | 188 | 170 | 38 | 16 | 43 | 5 | 18 | 91 |
Whitechapel North . | 10001 | 84 | 40 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
Whitechapel Church | 7489 | 65 | 243 | 19 | 29 | 37 | 49 | 217 | |
Goodman's Fields | 9713 | 78 | 37 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
Aldgate | 6102 | 40 | 22 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Totals | 71363 | 634 | 598 | 108 | 91 | 104 | 54 | 87 | 312 |