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Whitechapel 1859

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE V.—Ages at Death in the Workhouse.

TABLE V.—Ages at Death in the Workhouse.

0 and under 11 and under 55 and under 2020 and under 4040 and under 6060 and under 9080 and upwards.Total Males 30 Females 37Corresponding Quarter of 1857.
107116101856759

Table: TABLE VI.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District during the years 1857 and 1858.

TABLE VI.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District during the years 1857 and 1858.

1857.1858.
Districts.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Ferer.Hooping Cough.Diarrhoea.1 Typhus.Total.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Hooping Cough.Diarrhoea.Typhus.Total.
Artillery0649532714935729
Spitalfields099191510520242214151893
Mile End New Town018462436881524333438135
Whitechapel, N111220253493061819222287
Whitechapel Church12810141550176771139
Goodman's Fields089152986901562512462
Aldgate1671027116211721613453
360438913911745147887117108104498

Table: TABLE VII.—Showing the Mortality in the Workhouses and Hospitals in the District during 1856, 1857, and 1858.

TABLE VII.—Showing the Mortality in the Workhouses and Hospitals in the District during 1856, 1857, and 1858.

Union Workhouse.London Hospital.Military Hospital.
1856353185629718560
1857272185733818572
1858269185832518585

Table: TABLE VIII.—Showing the Mortality per cent, in the Whitechapel District in the undermentioned years.

TABLE VIII.—Showing the Mortality per cent, in the Whitechapel District in the undermentioned years.

From 1857 to 1858.,From 1839 to 1844.From 1844 to 1850.From 1854 to 1855.From 1856 to 1857.From 1857 to 1858.
4.53.32.92.82.42.6
From 1855 to the present time, the population of this District is estimated at 84,000.