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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 31st December, 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 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 37 | |
| Sipitalfields | 20 | 23 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 2 | 88 | |
| Mile E.N Town | 30 | 31 | 10 | 21 | 37 | 40 | 4 | 173 | Workhouse. |
| Whitechapel, N. | 21 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 87 | |
| Whitechapel Ch. | 9 | 23 | 20 | 34 | 42 | 23 | 0 | 151 | Hospital. |
| Goodman's Fields | 19 | 9 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 61 | |
| Aldgate | 11 | 14 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 57 | |
| Totals | 125 | 126 | 50 | 98 | 126 | 114 | 15 | 654 |
TABLE V—The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the 31st December, 1864
| Districts. | Births. | Total. | Deaths. | Total. | Excess of Births oyer Deaths. | Excess of Deaths over Births. | Remarks. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | ||||||
| Artillery | 25 | 20 | 45 | 21 | 16 | 37 | 8 | 0 | |
| Spitalfields | 77 | 71 | 148 | 49 | 39 | 88 | 60 | 0 | |
| Mile End N Town | 79 | 79 | 158 | 88 | 85 | 173 | 0 | 15 | Workhouse. |
| Whitechapel, N | 51 | 56 | 107 | 44 | 43 | 87 | 20 | 0 | |
| Whitechapl Church | 34 | 33 | 67 | 95 | 56 | 151 | 0 | 56 | London Hospital. |
| Goodman's Fields | 37 | 36 | 73 | 30 | 31 | 61 | 12 | 0 | |
| Aldgate | 27 | 31 | 58 | 34 | 23 | 57 | 1 | 0 | 52 non-residents died in L. Hos. |
| Totals | 330 | 326 | 656 | 361 | 293 | 654 | 101 | 71 | Excess of births over deaths, deducting the 52 non-residents - 04 |
Population in 1861, 78,970 In 1851 the population was 79,759 which number included 979 persons
being on board ship in the river and in the docks, while in 1861 the number living on board ship was only
264; the population therefore in 1861 living in houses within the district was only 74 less than it was in 1851
TABLE VI.—Total number of the under-mentioned Diseases, recorded in the Books of the Medical Officers of the Union, from 1860 to 1864.
| Year. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping-Cough | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Fever. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever | Carbuncle. | Bronchitis and Cattarrh. | Pneumonia and Pleuritis. | Croup. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Delirium Tremens. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | 65 | 520 | 93 | 83 | 801 | 190 | 1 | 52 | 1 | 9 | 845 | 141 | 3 | 7 | 41 | 6 | 11392 |
| 1861 | 86 | 70 | 100 | 388 | 1452 | 109 | ... | 75 | 1 | 9 | 803 | 104 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 2 | 13724 |
| 1862 | 113 | 525 | 118 | 153 | 1106 | 822 | 1 | 56 | ... | 4 | 557 | 135 | 9 | 16 | 24 | 4 | 14270 |
| 1863 | 253 | 80 | 305 | 169 | 1139 | 464 | 1 | 74 | 1 | 6 | 533 | 134 | 12 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 14564 |
| 1864 | 21 | 482 | 156 | 217 | 1127 | 295 | 1 | 92 | 1 | 6 | 786 | 95 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 14932 |
Total number of cases of Illness in the Workhouse in 1860 1677
Ditto ditto ditto in 1861 2911
Ditto ditto ditto in 1862 2987
Ditto ditto ditto in 1863 2479
Ditto ditto ditto in 1864 3112