London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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 28th June, 1879,

Sub-districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever.Cholers 4 Choleraic Diarrhœs.Total.Remarks.
Spitalfields0160620015
Mile End New Town0230422013Workhouse.
Whitechapel North011040006
Whitechapel Church000331108Hospital.
Goodman's Fields001000108
Aldgate000020002
Totals0101131954052
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1878.35412485050

Two deaths from small-pox of patients sent from this District, but not strictly belonging to
it (the particulars of which are recorded at pages 8 and 9 of this Report), occurred in the
Small-Pox Hospital. No death from fever occurred in the Fever Hospital, among
the 15 patients sent from this District.

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 28th June, 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.
Spitalfields2249920183202967132
Mile End New Town1555016216926255361792
Whitechapel North115971084312114130
Whitechapel Church7322611811415192328150
Goodman's Fields1038178381397230
Aldgate92244631965770
Totals765736595509495944671244