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Whitechapel 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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TABLE VI.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District during the last 27 years.

Name of Disease185718581859I860186118621863186418651866186718681869187018711872• 18731874187518761877187818791880188118S2Yr. ended 29 Sep.1883
Small Pox34602128336952244401115615919112823117164773
Measles607831812715326137281393369713642234433401696324926884779
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria43879659709120050807626482085925S62419951182824893735t3545
Hooping Cough8911750498962527497947255113504397916615744847339489014
Diarrhoea13910814167101691141091221191001389710712599113769310389896790916174
Fever117104936965250158170167100821C9955240264447302726293316364237
Cbolera&Cho-leraic-I>iarrh<Ea1065145524904910763583000000000
Totals4615044763473846636245475201476362440592366437277313375277229306269318224345282252
LOndonFever22031902179613021754363523023689323226812174248322112049175510031548155212821206124013611084887119511171102
Scarlta. & Diph.158741184197245730584194579938062614231618363418G1026306222010639323037403826731776235032123624277228672979
Small Pox..1542471156877215345201253764613881339606273958783415321145675739254414164544752371431140

* In the above Table the years 1863, 1869, 1873 and 1880, consist of 53 weeks.
In the column of deaths for 1879,1880,1881,1882 & 1883, the deaths from small-pox & from fever which occurred in the Hospitals are included,
† Scarlet-fever and diphtheria in the earlier records of the Registrar-General were not separated, but were classed under one •
heading, viz.: scarlet-fever. For some years past these diseases have been recorded under separate headings.
‡ The deaths from scarlet-fever during this year were 26 and from diphtheria 19. In London, the deaths from scarlet-fever were
2087, and from diphtheria 892.