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 29th December, 1883.
Sub-districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Fever. | Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhoea. | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
Mile End New Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | Workhouse |
Whitechapel North | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |
Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 12 | Hospital. |
Goodman's Fields | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
Totals | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 34 | |
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1882. | 0 | 22 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 59 |
One death from small-pox, of a patient sent from this District, occurred in the
Small-pox Hospital.
TABLE III.
Showing Sub-districts, Euumerated Population, Total Births, and Deaths from all causes— Deaths under 1 year of age, 1 and under 5 years, and above GO years; Deaths from Violence, Inquest cases, and Deaths in Workhouse and London Hospital, for the Quarter ended 29th December, 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 | 70 | 24 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
Mile End New Town | 15473 | 185 | 134 | 23 | 15 | 44 | 2 | 9 | 67 |
Whitechapel North | 10001 | 58 | 35 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
Whitechapel Church | 7489 | 54 | 212 | 18 | 32 | 19 | 41 | 46 | 179 |
Goodman's Fields | 9713 | 61 | 30 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Aldgate | 6102 | 48 | 28 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
Totals | 71363 | 585 | 509 | 91 | 69 | 88 | 51 | 70 | 247 |