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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 2nd October, 1880.

Sub-districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet FeverDiphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever.Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhœa.Total.Remarks.
Spitalfields01214192029
Mile End New Town00201180021Workhouse.
Whitechapel North0120171012
Whitechapel Church0222051012Hospital.
Goodman's Fields00111180021
Aldgate000003003
Totals04947704098
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1879.112303174650114

Two deaths from small-pox, of patients sent from this District, occurred in the Small-Pox
Hospital. One death from fever occurred in the Fever Hospital of patients sent from this
District, thus making 5 deaths from fever. The number of small-pox patients sentfrom this
District was 7, and of fever 18.

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 2nd October, 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.
Spitalfields224991831104128155115
Mile End New Town155501501273716330968
Whitechapel North1159785482188010
Whitechapel Church7322601951734152225158
Goodman's Fields10381785215175240
Aldgate92243424763560
Totals76573590556138109793456231