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Whitechapel 1881

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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TABLE 11.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ended

2nd July, 1881.

Sub-districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet FeverDiphtheria.HoopingCough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Cholera 4 Choleraic Diarrlœa.Total.Remarks.
Spitalfields1900260018Workhouse.
Mile End New Town020016008
Whitechapel North161000109
Whitechapel Church1600131012Hospital.
Goodman's Fields020032007
Aldgate030004108
Totals328107203062
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1880.21218121027

Fourteen deaths from small-pox, of patients sent from this District, occurred in the
Small-pox Hospital, thus making 17 deaths from small-pox of persons resident in the
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 2nd July, 1881.

Sub-districts.Enumerated Population in 1881.| 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.
Spitalfields22586197953426105132
Mile End New Town1547416814428203851967
Whitechapel North10001109438107050
Whitechapel Church7489721631228212525140
Goodman's Fields9708814418104230
Aldgate6092474010113360
Totals71350674534110105834071209