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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Whitechapel 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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table of deaths during the year 1897 in the metropolitan sanitary district of whitechapel.
C lassified according to Diseases, A ges and Localities.
| Description of SubBegistration Districts and Public Institutions, also Outlying Public Institution Deaths. | Mortality from all causes at subjoined ages. | Age. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Total. | ||||||||
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| Small-pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | fevers. | Cholera, | Erysipelas. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia & Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other causes | ||||||||||||||||
| At all ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 5. | 5 & under 15. | 15 & under 25. | 25 & under 65. | 65 & upwards. | Typhus. | Enteric, or Typhoid | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Spitalfields- (Sub-Registration District) | 1st Qtr. | 65 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 9 | Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | 1 | 15 | 24 | 65 |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 12 | 6 | - | 16 | 41 | ||||||||||
| 2nd „ | 68 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 8 | Under 5 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | 3 | 21 | 37 | 68 | |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 8 | 7 | - | 13 | 31 | ||||||||||
| 3rd „ | 108 | 52 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 6 | Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | 12 | - | - | - | 14 | - | 4 | 46 | 82 | 108 | |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 26 | ||||||||||
| 4th „ | 83 | 33 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 10 | Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 17 | 1 | - | 24 | 50 | 83 | |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 33 | ||||||||||
| Total for year | 324 | 131 | 62 | 10 | 9 | 79 | 33 | Under 5 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | 2 | 14 | - | - | 2 | 43 | 1 | 8 | 106 | 193 | 324 | |
| 5 upwards | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | ~ | 17 | 33 | 22 | 2 | 49 | 131 | ||||||||||
| Mile End New Town- Sub-Registration District) | 1st Qtr. | 139 | 25 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 89 | 17 | Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | - | - | 22 | 29 | 139 |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 27 | 40 | 12 | - | 28 | 110 | ||||||||||
| (2nd ,, | 116 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 68 | 21 | Under 5 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | - | 1 | 11 | 24 | 116 | |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | 32 | 9 | 4 | 26 | 92 | ||||||||||
| 3rd „ | 110 | 27 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 56 | 9 | Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 1 | 8 | - | - | - | 8 | - | 1 | 14 | 40 | 110 | |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | 7 | 7 | - | 70 | |||||||||||
| 4th „ | 167 | 31 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 89 | 25 | Under 5 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 6 | - | - | - | - | 16 | 77 | 2 | 17 | 45 | 167 | |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 38 | 23 | - | - | 45 | 122 | ||||||||||
| Total for year | 532 | 98 | 40 | 7 | 13 | 302 | 72 | Under 5 | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | 8 | 9 | - | - | 2 | 32 | - | 4 | 64 | 138 | - 532 | |
| 5 upwards | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 108 | 102 | 42 | 9 | 125 | 394 | ||||||||||
| Deaths occuring in the Whitechapel Union Infirmary | 1st Qtr. | 108 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 84 | 14 | Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 7 | ■ 108 |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 25 | 38 | 10 | - | 27 | 101 | ||||||||||
| 2nd „ | 90 | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | 64 | 19 | Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 5 | 90 | |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | 31 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 85 | ||||||||||
| 3rd „ | 70 | 6 | 6 | - | 4 | 46 | 8 | Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | 3 | 12 | 70 | |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 58 | ||||||||||
| 4th „ | 116 | 9 | 4 | - | 5 | 80 | 18 | Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | 1 | 5 | 13 | 116 | |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 36 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 40 | 103 | ||||||||||
| Total for years | 384 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 274 | 59 | ,1 Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 11 | - | 1 | 15 | 37 | 384 | ||
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 101 | 92 | 32 | 9 | 109 | 347 | ||||||||||