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Whitechapel 1873

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE IV.—Ages at Death in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending 28th June, 1873.

TABLE IV.—Ages at Death in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending 28th June, 1873.

Districts.0 and under 3.1 and under 5.5 and under 20.20 and under 40.40 and under 6060 and under 80.80 and upwards.Total.Remarks.
642416225Workhouse.
Spitalfields211708510263
Mile E. N. Town201852336270129
Whitechapel, N261209910167
Whitechapel Ch1213175656183175Hospital.
Goodman's Fields1263265034
Aldgate12855114045
1097832107124808538

Table: TABLE V.—The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending 28th J une, 1873.

TABLE V.—The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending 28th J une, 1873.

Districts.Births.Total.Deaths.Total.Excess of Births over Deaths.Excess of Deaths over Births.Remarks
M.F.M.F.
262652111425270Workhouse.
Spitalfields6751118303363550
Mile EndN.Town79761557950129260
Whitechapel, N.5359112382967450
WhitechplChurch303363119561750112London Hospital.
Goodman's Fields57429918163465095 Non-residents
282856212445110died in the London Hospital.
340315655316222538229112Excess of Births over] Deaths deductingthe 95 Deaths of non-residents 212.

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Population in 1861, 78,970. Population in 1871, 76,573. Decrease in Population between
the Censuses of 1861 and 1871, 2,397