London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Mile End 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
This page requires JavaScript
TABLE III.
Deaths from eight infectious diseases for each Quarter, commencing April, 1878, and ending March, 1879.
Quarter ending
Small-pox.
Measles.
Scarlet
Fever.
Dphtheria.
Whooping
Cough.
Fever.
Diarrhœa.
Cholera.
Totals.
June, 1878
16
2
8
4
49
8
10
1
98
Sept. „
0
1
5
2
26
5
104
7
150
Dec. „
0
5
12
4
17
5
9
0
52
March „
2
3
4
1
36
7
6
0
59
Total for four Quarters
18
11
29
11
128
25
129
8
359
Death-rate per 1000 population living from zymotic diseases.
Year ending
Mile End.
Metropolis.
Twenty large towns
March. 1879.
3.26
3.77
4.2