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Whitechapel 1866
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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Table VIII.
The following Table, prepared - from the Returns of the Registrar General for the week ending December 8th, shows the Elevation, Persons to an Acre, Annual Value of House and Shop room to each Person in the £, Poor Rate in the £ of House Rent, Annual Mortality in each of the Ten Years 1841-50, from all Causes, and Number of Deaths in Twenty -three Weeks ending 1st December, 1866, to 10,000 persons living, from all causes, from Cholera, and from Diarrhœa.
| Districts. | Elevation in feet above Trinity High Water Mark. | Persons to an acre in 1866. | Annual value of Houses, year ending April, 1843. | Annual value of House and shop room to each person in £. | Poor rate in the £ of House Rent. | Annual Mortality from all causes. | Number of deaths in 23 weeks, to 10,000 living. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths to 1000 living. | All causes. | Cholera.* | Diarrhoea. | Cholera and Diarrhœa. | |||||||||
| 1841-50 | 1851-60 | ||||||||||||
| London | 39 | 39.0 | £ 40 | £ 5.589 | .064 | 25 | 24 | 119.9 | 18.3 | 8.9 | 27.2 | ||
| Whitechapel London Hospital, Temporary Cholera Hospital | 32 | 188.1 | 26 | 3.388 | .075 | 29 | 28 | 223.1 | 77.5 | 14.4 | 91.9 | ||
TABLE IX.
The following Table, prepared from the same Return, shows the Area in Acres, the Number of Inhabitants in 1861, Population in 1851, 1861 and 1866, and Deaths registered in Twenty-three Weeks ending 1st December, 1866, from all Causes, from Cholera, and from Diarrhœa.
| District. | Area in Statute acres. | Number of inhabited houses enumerated in 1861. | Population | Deaths registered in 23 weeks ending 1st December, 1866. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1851 enumerated. | 1861 enumerated. | 1866 estimated. | All Causes. | Cholera. | Diarrhœa | Cholera and Diarrhœa | |||
| London | 77,997 | 359,421 | 2,362,236 | 2,803,989 | 3,037,991 | 36,423 | 5,548 | 2,692 | 8,240 |
| Whitechapel | 406 | 8,664 | 79,759 | 78,970 | 76,386† | 1,704 | 592* | 110 | 702 |
* The deaths from Cholera in the London Hospital not belonging to this District were 235,
and those in the Temporary Cholera Hospital were 103.- The deaths, exclusive of those of
non-residents, have been 566, instead of 592, as above estimated; consequently the rate of
mortality in this District has been 70 per 10,000.
† The population in this District may be more properly estimated at 78,000.