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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
Limehouse 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TABLE V.
TABLE OF DEATHS during the Year 1896, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Limehouse, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
| Names op Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shewn as separate localities. | Mortality prom All Causes, at subjoined ages. | Mortality from subjoined Causes, distinguishing Deaths op Children under Five Years of Age. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages. | Under 1 Year. | 1 and under 5 | 5 and under 15 | 15 and under 25 | 25 and under 65 | 65 and upwards. | i | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | ||
| (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.) | Small Pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria | M embra-nous Croup | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Fhthisis, | Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy | Heart Disease. | Influenza. | Injuries. | All other Diseases | Total. | ||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Limehouse | 554 | 192 | 145 | 26 | 20 | 114 | 57 | Under 5 | - | 2 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 31 | 34 | 17 | - | 14 | 59 | 1 | - | 13 | 153 | 337 |
| 5 upwds. | — | 1 | 3 | — | — | 1 | — | — | i | — | — | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 32 | 35 | 31 | 4 | 13 | 91 | 217 | ||||||||
| Ratcliff | 231 | 70 | 52 | 15 | 13 | 58 | 23 | Under 5 | - | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 10 | 8 | - | 4 | 33 | - | - | fi | 46 | 122 |
| 5 upwds. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | — | 23 | 20 | 13 | — | 7 | 43 | 109 | ||||||||
| Shadwell and Wapping | 169 | 59 | 36 | 9 | 9 | 44 | 12 | Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 5 | 12 | - | 6 | 28 | 1 | - | 4 | 34 | 95 |
| 5 upwds. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | 13 | 9 | — | 15 | 23 | 74 | ||||||||
| East London Children's Hospital | 262 | 141 | 99 | 22 | — | — | — | Under 5 | — | — | 11 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | —. | - | 4 | 6 | — | 19 | 59 | 5 | 8 | 127 | 240 | |
| 5 upwds. | — | — | — | 1 — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | - | 6 | - | 4 | — | — | 10 | 22 | ||||||||
| Totals | 1216 | 462 | 332 | 72 | 42 | 216 | 92 | Under 5 | - | 5 | 28 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 43 | 53 | 43 | - | 43 | 179 | 7 | - | 31 | 360 | 794 |
| 5 upwds. | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 3 | - | — | i | — | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 74 | 68 | 57 | 4 | 35 | 167 | 422 | ||||||||
The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality.
| Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto | 379 | 22 | 38 | 17 | 20 | 213 | 69 | Under 5 | - | 5 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | 3 | 11 | 3 | - | 3 | 22 | 60 |
| 5 upwds. | — | 3 | 5 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | - | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 65 | 44 | 39 | 1 | 32 | 128 | 319 | ||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 210 | 116 | 75 | 19 | — | - | - | Under 5 | - | - | 9 | - | - | l | - | - | - | -_ | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | 13 | 51 | 5 | - | 5 | 102 | 191 |
| 5 upwds. | - | - | 1 | — | - | l | — | - | - | - | — | — | - | 3 | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | 9 | 9 |