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Whitechapel 1883

[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 Disease18571858185918601861186218631864186518661867186818691870187118721873187418751876187718781879188018811882Yr. ended 29 Sept., 1883.
Small Pox620242658611325321862612549353026256021019125481037135173
Measles266427179520705258048251679155323212257178761285932326411115401645883
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria49147176931001183051561641976054311973216221611768187121151518
Hooping Cough1502301468338815316921728021721914430814010294863044152416331230454
Diarrhoea132494612097731418108511081127134216641471163110331097590283212150101120617691119976575
Fever1441590411190109822464295573343308586385325201191268424341717139122312
Cholera&Cho-leraio-Diarrbosi16011011445858142320001200100
Totals325223602364172021712817238023022500341924722839225522221730551578485218226300188333238454223195

* In the above Table the years 1863, 1869, and 1873, consist of 53 weeks.