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716 of the deaths belong to the Limehouse District
540 of the deaths belonged to St George-in-the-East
1,230 of the deaths belonged to Mile End Old Town
845 of the deaths belonged to the Whitechapel District
The death-rate was 118 per 1,000 of the population, while that for the whole of
London was 134 per 1,000
Notifiable Diseases
3,828 notifications were received This number includes, 965 notifications of
diseases of a Tubercular nature and 855 of Measles 2,099 were removed to various
fever hospitals and infirmaries
Of the Infectious Diseases:—
798 belonged to the Limehouse District
802 belonged to St George-in-the-East
1,408 belonged to Mile End Old Town
820 belonged to the Whitechapel District
Wrong Diagnosis
56 cases of Infectious Disease were removed to hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, which were subsequently returned home in consequence of the
patients found not to be suffering from the diseases stated on the certificates or any
other notifiable disease
30 of the cases were notified by private practitioners, 19 from the London
Hospital, and 7 from other Public Institutions
This number referred to 14 cases of Scarlet Fever, 2 of Enteric Fever, 39 of
Diphtheria and 1 of Puerperal Fever
Small-pox
One case was notified during the year A boy aged 7, who lived in Rupert Street,
Whitechapel, developed the disease in a very mild form Our inquiries failed to
discover how and where he contracted it
There was another case, but the disease was not recognised during the life
time of the patient and was therefore not notified in the usual way
On Saturday, 28th June, I was asked by a medical man in the district to see
the body of a man he had been attending, and had certified the cause of death to
be Purpura Haemorrhagica,
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