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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 1866

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE II.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 29th September, 1866.

TABLE II.—Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 29th September, 1866.

Districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever.Cholera.Total.Remarks.
Artillery03401421933
Spitalfields214302163179219
Mile End New Town38212199149193Workhouse.
Whitechapel, North263071333973
Whitechapel church03102214329360Hospital.
Goodman;s Church062021315781
Aldgate194011233767
Total8491911798258091026
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1865.313011364424148

Table: TABLE III—The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the 29th September, 1866.

TABLE III—The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the 29th September, 1866.

Districts.Births.Total.Deaths.Total.Excess of Births over Deaths.Excess of Deaths over Births.Remarks
M.F.MF.
Artillery22264829265507
*Spitalfields61501111181452630152Chol. Hospital.
Mile End N. Town89501391661613270188Workhouse.
Whitechape l, N.4541866658124038
*WhitechplChurch2623492821894710422London Hospital.
Goodman's Fields3046765776133057
Aldgate3736735650106033
Totals31027258277470514790897

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Population in 1861, 78,970.
* The total Deaths of non-residents have been 316. The excess of Deaths over Births is
therefore 581.