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 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
This page requires JavaScript
Continued from previous page...
| Tear. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1850 | 26 | 109 | |||
| 1851 | 108 | ||||
| 1852 | |||||
| 22 | 6 | 112 | |||
| 1854 | 8 | 103 | |||
| 8 | 168 | ||||
| 1856 | - | 18 | |||
| 21 | 8 | - | 100 | 136 | |
| 1858 | 16 | 29 | |||
| 62 | |||||
| i860 | 20 | ||||
| l86l | 16 | 46 | |||
| 1862 | 29 | 6 | |||
| 1863 | 24 | ||||
| 1864 | 64 | ||||
| 1865 | 20 | 6 | |||
| 1866 | 10 | — | |||
| 1867 | |||||
| 1868 | 26 | ||||
| 1869 | 21 | — | |||
| 1870 | |||||
| 1871 | 12 | ||||
| 1872 | 10 | 2 | 21 | ||
| 1873 | — | 16 | |||
| 1874 | 2 | 2 | 16 | ||
| 1875 | — | 2 | 21 | ||
| 1876 | 2 | 23 | |||
| 1877 | — | ||||
| 1878 | — | ||||
| 1879 | — | ||||
| 1880 | 2 | ||||
| 1881 | — | 8 | |||
| 1882 | 6 | ||||
| 1883 | — | ||||
| 1884 | 2 | — | 6 | ||
| 1885 | — | — | — | ||
| 1886 | 2 | — | 2 | ||
| 1887 | — | — | |||
| 1888 | — | — | — | ||
| 1889 | 2 | ||||
| 1890 | 16 | 27 | 648 |
In this Report the epidemic of the present year is of most
interest, the disease first showed itself at the end of February at
Hull, other places in Yorkshire soon following, Sheffield, Leeds,
and Bradford : in the commencement of May it was reported in
London first in the North of the Metropolis, but at the same
period we had numerous cases in our district, and so rapidly did
it spread that medical men were working night and day for