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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 II.- - Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 29th December, 1866.
| Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Hooping-Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Fever* | Cholera. | Total. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artiller | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| Spitafields | 7 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 61 3 | 81 | |
| Mile End New Town | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 21 | Workhouse. | |
| Whitechapel,North | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 17 | |
| White chapel Church | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 28 | Hospital. |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 13 | |
| Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| Total | 9 | 6 | 18 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 19 | 95 | 172 | |
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1865. | 15 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 19 | 23 | 43 | 0 | 124 |
* fever cases are not now taken into the Workhouse, but are sent to the Fever Hospital.
TABLE III —The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the 29th December, 1866.
| Districts. | Births. | Total. | Deaths. | Total. | Excess of Births over Deaths. | Excess of Deaths over Births. | Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M | F. | ||||||
| Artillery | 24 | 21 | 45 | 16 | 19 | 35 | 10 | 0 | |
| *Spitalfields | 62 | 44 | 106 | 71 | 72 | 143 | 0 | 37 | Chol. Hospital. |
| MileEndN.Town | 73 | 66 | 144 | 72 | 80 | 152 | 0 | 8 | Workhouse. |
| Whitechapel, N. | 47 | 50 | 97 | 33 | 35 | 68 | 29 | 0 | |
| *WhitechplChurch | 31 | 33 | 64 | 95 | 57 | 152 | 0 | 88 | London Hospital. |
| Goodman's Fields | 45 | 58 | 103 | 30 | 27 | 57 | 46 | 0 | |
| Aldgate | 26 | 26 | 52 | 30 | 25 | 55 | 0 | 3 | |
| Totals | 313 | 298 | 611 | 347 | 315 | 662 | 85 | 136 | |
Population, as enumerated in 1861, was, 78,970; in 1866, as estimated by the Registrar
General, it is 76,386.
* The total Deaths of non-residents have been 98; of these 56 occurred in the London Hospital
and 42 in the Cholera Hospital in Commercial Street. The deaths from Cholera in the London
Hospital were 15; of these 10 were of non-residents. The deaths from Cholera in the Workhouse
were 2, one of these occurred on the 2nd November, and was removed from 11, Flower and
Dean Street, the other on the 7th November from the same house.