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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Whitechapel 1864
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE IV.— Ages at Death in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending 2nd April, 1864.
| Districts. | 0 and under 1 | 1 and under 5 | 5 and under 20 | 20 and under 40 | 40 and under 60 | 60 and under 80 | 80 and upwards | Total | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artillery | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 36 | |
| Spitalfields | 4 | 7 | 23 | 20 | 3 | 104 | |||
| Mile E. N. Town. | 27 | 27 | 9 | 60 | 6 | Workhouse | |||
| Whitechapel, N | 26 | 30 | 7 | 5 | 17 | 4 | |||
| Whitechapel Ch. | 9 | 15 | 36 | 23 | 6 | 173 | Hospital | ||
| Goodman's Fields | 19 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 73 | |||
| Aldgate | 10 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 64 | |
| Totals | 123 | 129 | 49 | 103 | 198 | 143 | 767 |
TABLE V.— The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the 2nd April, 1864.
| Districts. | Births. | Total. | Deaths. | Total. | Excess of Births oyer Deaths. | Excess of Deaths over Births. | Remarks. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | ||||||
| Artillery | 81 | 25 | 56 | 19 | 17 | 36 | 20 | 0 | |
| Spitalfields | 65 | 53 | 118 | 48 | 56 | 104 | 14 | 0 | |
| Mile End N. Town. | 101 | 86 | 187 | 115 | 101 | 216 | 0 | 29 | Workhouse. |
| Whitechapel, N | 55 | 64 | 119 | 53 | 48 | 101 | 18 | 0 | |
| Whitechapl. Church | 44 | 48 | 92 | 109 | 64 | 173 | 0 | 81 | London Hospital. |
| Goodman's Fields | 69 | 56 | 125 | 45 | 28 | 73 | 52 | 0 | |
| Aldgate | 35 | 38 | 73 | 35 | 29 | 64 | 9 | 0 | 54 non-residents died in L. Hos. |
| Totals | 400 | 370 | 770 | 424 | 343 | 767 | 113 | 110 | Excess of births over deaths, deducting the 54 non-residents..57 |
| Population in 1861, 78,970. | |||||||||