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Whitechapel 1879

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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ERRATA
In Report for September, 1857, in page 7, line 13, delete how.
„ ,, August, 1858, in Table of Epidemic Diseases, under the heading
Small-pox, line 7, add the figure 1, and in the total, for 51
read 57. In same Report, in Table of the Ages at Death in
London Hospital, for 42 read 21.
„ ,, March, 1360, in Table of Epidemic Diseases, in last column but one,
for 44 read 42, and for 88 read 86.
,, ,, June, 1861, in line 7 from bottom, page 3, delete the. In same
Report, in line 15, for 797 read 697, and in last line of the
second paragraph, for remove read abate.
„ „ September, 1861, in line 8 from bottom, page 4, for 34 read 36.
In same Report, in line 19, for five read four.
„ ,, March, 1868, to line 13, page 10, add a few others are carried on,
and in line 28 in same page, delete not. In line 14, page 9, same
Report, for two read ten.
„ ,, June, 1872, in Table of Epidemic Diseases, page 9, the figures in the
columns under 1869 and 1870, are corrected in the Table at page
11 in the Report for March, 1877.
,, ,, January, 1874, in line 25, page 10, for 76,332 read 76,573, and for
2,638 read 2,397; in line 26, for 32.3 read 32.2; in line 34,
for 19 per 1,000 read 21.8 per 1,000, and for 1 in 52 read
1 in 46. In page 11 of same Report, in line 5 from bottom, for
2.7 per cent. read 25.2 per cent. In page 17 of same Report,
column 5, in first Table, for number of persons read number of
square yards to a person. See Table V., in Report for Jan., 1875,
which shows the annual rate of mortality since 1864.
„ ,, July, 1874, page 11, line 13, for is read it; and for recepacles read
receptacles.
„ ,, April, 1876, page 9, line 4 from bottom, for already read clearly.
,, „ March, 1877, line 3 from bottom, for 1859 read 1869. In same
Report, page 11, line 2, for 1871 read 1876, and in page 12, line 7,
for 1876 read 1878.
,, September, 1877, page 16, line 12 from bottom, for Torren's read
Torrent'.
,, ,, December, 1878, page 12, line 19, for 1864 read 1844, and in same
Report, page 11, line 10, for 27,144 read 26,144.
June, 1879, page 10, in the third column of Table, delete average.