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 VII.
Showing the cases of Epidemic Diseases among the pauper population in the Whitechapel District during the last 27 years.
Name of Disease | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | Yr. ended 29 Sept., 1883. |
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Small Pox | 6 | 20 | 242 | 65 | 86 | 113 | 253 | 21 | 86 | 261 | 254 | 93 | 5 | 302 | 625 | 60 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 125 | 48 | 10 | 37 | 135 | 17 | 3 |
Measles | 266 | 427 | 179 | 520 | 70 | 525 | 80 | 482 | 51 | 679 | 155 | 323 | 212 | 257 | 178 | 76 | 128 | 59 | 32 | 32 | 64 | 11 | 115 | 40 | 164 | 58 | 83 |
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria | 49 | 147 | 176 | 93 | 100 | 118 | 305 | 156 | 164 | 197 | 60 | 54 | 311 | 97 | 32 | 16 | 22 | 161 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 71 | 21 | 15 | 15 | 18 |
Hooping Cough | 150 | 230 | 146 | 83 | 388 | 153 | 169 | 217 | 280 | 217 | 219 | 144 | 308 | 140 | 102 | 94 | 86 | 30 | 44 | 15 | 24 | 16 | 33 | 12 | 30 | 45 | 4 |
Diarrhoea | 1324 | 946 | 1209 | 773 | 1418 | 1085 | 1108 | 1127 | 1342 | 1664 | 1471 | 1631 | 1033 | 1097 | 590 | 283 | 212 | 150 | 101 | 120 | 61 | 76 | 91 | 119 | 97 | 65 | 75 |
Fever | 1441 | 590 | 411 | 190 | 109 | 822 | 464 | 295 | 573 | 343 | 308 | 586 | 385 | 325 | 201 | 19 | 126 | 84 | 24 | 34 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 23 | 12 |
Cholera&Cho-leraio-Diarrbosi | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 58 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 3252 | 2360 | 2364 | 1720 | 2171 | 2817 | 2380 | 2302 | 2500 | 3419 | 2472 | 2839 | 2255 | 2222 | 1730 | 551 | 578 | 485 | 218 | 226 | 300 | 188 | 333 | 238 | 454 | 223 | 195 |
* In the above Table the years 1863, 1869, and 1873, consist of 53 weeks.