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usual, produces an excellent record of useful work which in the
form of a Table, * I have introduced into the Appendix.
As the deaths from zymotic causes, as well as all others, are
arranged in Table Mf I do not propose to individually deal with
this Table now, but certain points arrest attention whilst looking
over the figures. Notice first, that Measles and Whooping Cough
together are responsible for the same number of deaths as all the
zymotic diseases which are included in the Notification SeCtions
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. Next, that Diarrhcea
(chiefly of infants) produced 45 deaths, whilst Influenza killed 50
persons.
About this disease I have not much to say. It is now accepted
as a maxim, that Influenza is both infectious and contagious.
Whilst it respeCts generally no class of society, it appears to have
expended its virulence more particularly upon the very poor in the
Whitechapel District. In nearly all the deaths, a secondary cause
was added, such being almost, universally, a bronchial or lung
complication. I have extracted a few details from my notes of the
year's work which I append without venturing to offer any
explanation concerning them.
The total deaths during the year from Influenza amounted to 50.
Males were victims in 28 instances. Twenty-nine of the deaths
occurred in the Whitechapel Union Infirmary, and in all other
parts of the District and in outlying Public Institutions there died
twenty-one persons.
Previous residence of Persons dying from Influenza : —
Spitalfields Sub-District 22
Mile End New Town Sub-District 5
Whitechapel Church ,, 9
Goodman's Fields ,, 3
Aldgate ,, 7
Unknown 4
5o
The registered common lodging-houses in Spitalfields contributed
greatly to the above list.
* Page 36. † Page 37.