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Whitechapel 1879

[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 ended . 29th March, 1879.

Sub-districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhea.Total.Remarks.
Spitalfields000171009
Mile End New Town000080109Workhouse.
Whitechapel North013021209
Whitechapel Church000041308Hospital.
Goodman's Fields000020002
Aldgate000100001
Totals01322336033
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1878.79623559073

No deaths from small-pox of patients belonging to this District occurred in the SmallPox
Hospital at Homerton. No death from fever occurred in the Fever Hospital.

TABLE III.

Showing Sub-districts, Enumerated Population, Total Births, and Deaths from all causes— Deaths under 1 year of age, 1 and under 5 years, and above 60 years ; Deaths from Violence, Inquest cases, and Deaths in Workhouse and London Hospital, for the Quarter ended 29th March, 1879.

Sub-districts.Enumerated Population in 1871.Births.Deaths.Under 1 year of age.1, and under 5 years.Persons aged 60 years and upwards.Violence.Inquest cases.Deaths in Public Institutions.
Spitalfields224992351243523285205
Mile End New Town15550214183272064719108
Whitechapel North115979765211711170
Whitechapel Church7322741911517352930150
Goodman's Fields10381904711913130
Aldgate92244337687260
Totals76573753647115941584585263