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

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Whitechapel 1880

[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

3rd July, 1880.

Sub-districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever.Cholera 4 Choleraic Diarrhœa.Total.Remarks.
Spitalfields010123007
Mile End New Town100014006Workhouse.
Whitechapel North100013005
Whitechapel Church000021104Hospital.
Goodman's Fields001011003
Aldgate001010002
Totals21218121027
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1879.0101131954052

Three deaths from small-pox, of patients sent from this District, occurred in the Small-Pox
Hospital. No death from fever occurred in the Fever Hospital of patients sent from this
District. The number of small-pox patients sent from this District was 13, and of fever 2.

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 3rd July, 1880.

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.
Spitalfields2249917382301995102
Mile End New Town155501811222372731467
Whitechapel North115971165120155660
Whitechapel Church7322581661418243340133
Goodman's Fields1038110830973130
Aldgate92244021523000
Totals7657367647210168714873202