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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 1870

[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 31st December, 1870.

TABLE II.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 31st December, 1870.

Districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet-FeverDiphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever.Cholera.Total.Remarks.
Artillery403010008
Spitalfields18050242031
Mile End New Town102110449040Workhouse.
Whitechapel, North101011307
Whitechapel Church3040113012Hospital.
Goodman's Fields212001107
Aldgate12220111019
Totals5052301012190124
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1869.0246222415111139

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Six patients suffering from small pox have been sent to the hospital under the management of
the Metropolitan Asylum Board, of which two died, thus making the deaths from small pox 52.

Table: TABLE III.The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the 31st December, 1870.

TABLE III.

The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the 31st December, 1870.

Districts.Births.Total.Deaths.Total.Excess of Births over Deaths.Excess of Deaths over Births.Remarks
M.F.M.F.
Artillery312354211536180
Spitalfields6067127454691360
Mile End N.Town76781549576171017Workhouse.
Whitechapel, N.5251103312152510
WhitechplChurch374380115811960116London Hospital.
Goodman's Fields46428829225137096 Non-residents
Aldgate29356432205860died in the London Hospital.
Totals331339670368287655148133Excess of Births over Deaths, deducting the 96 non-residents, 111
Population in 1861, 78,970.Estimated Popultion in 1870, 76,000