Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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Table A.—Births Registered in the Whitechapel District during the year 1889.
Sub Registration Districts. | Spital-fields. | Mile End New Town | White-chapel Church. | Goodmans Fields. | Aldgate. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boys. | Girls. | ||||||
First Quarter. | 199 | 217 | 156 | 45 | 44 | 341 | 320 |
Second ,, | 193 | 248 | 152 | 57 | 62 | 344 | 368 |
Third ,, | 166 | 188 | 140 | 55 | 42 | 296 | 295 |
Fourth ,, | 185 | 223 | 147 | 63 | 51 | 333 | 336 |
Total | 743 | 876 | 595 | 220 | 199 | 2633* |
* Correct number 2627, because 6 Non-Residents were born in the Infirmary.
Table B.—Deaths Registered in the Whitechapel District during the year 1889
Sub-Registration Districts. | Spital-fields. | Mile End New Town | Whitechapel Church. | Goodmans Fields. | Aldgate. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Males. | Females. | ||||||
First Quarter. | 82 | 159 | 294 | 23 | 29 | 337 | 250 |
Second ,, | 60 | 113 | 266 | 26 | 27 | 276 | 216 |
Third „ | 64 | 127 | 266 | 17 | 21 | 275 | 220 |
Fourth ,, | 95 | I50 | 282 | 28 | 26 | 339 | 242 |
Total | 301 | 549 | ii08 | 94 | 103 | 2155 |
Table C.—The 749 Deaths of Non-Residents which took place in the District were Registered as under :
Spitalfields. | Mile End New Town (Whitechapel Infirmary). | Whitechapel Church (London Hospital). | Goodman's Fields. | Aldgate. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2 | 4 | 738 | I | 4 |
Table D.— Outlying Public Institutions, &c., where Residents of the Whitechapel District Died.
Asylums Board Hospitals | 17 | Brought over | 93 | |
Cancer Hospital, Fulham | 1 | Holborn Workhouse | 1 | |
Central London Sick Asylum | 1 | Holborn, Harper Street | 1 | |
Convent Hospital | 2 | Jews' Hospital and Asylum | 5 | |
City Infirmary | 2 | Middlesex Hospital | 2 | |
City of London Chest Hospital | 3 | Millwall Docks | 1 | |
Charing Cross Hospital | 1 | National Hospital for Paralysis | 1 | |
Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street | 1 | Poplar, Clark's Yarn | 1 | |
St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 14 | |||
Children's Hospital, Shadwell | 15 | St. Peter's Hospital | 1 | |
____Banstead | 8 | St. Elizabeth's Home | 3 | |
Extra Metropolitan Asylums | ColneyHatch | 14 | Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich | 1 |
Leavesden | 8 | Throat Hospital, Golden Square | 1 | |
German Hospital | 15 | Westminster Hospital | 1 | |
Guy's Hospital | 5 | Westminster Workhouse | 1 | |
Carried over | 93 | Total | 127 |