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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Whitechapel 1894
The annual report on the sanitary condition of the Whitechapel District, (with vital and other statistics), for the year 1894 (consisting of 52 weeks) being the eleventh annual report
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APPENDIX.
AREA AND POPULATION
OF THE DISTRICT
TO WHICH THIS RETURNS RELATES:—
Area in Acres, 406 (Including 23 Acres of Water).
Population in 1891, 74,261.
Estimated Population in the Middle of 1894,
75,498.
Census of Public Institutions
On the Night of December 31st, 1894:—
The London Hospital = 929*
1,643
The Whitechapel Union Infirmary = 714†
* 605 of whom were Patients.
† 619 or whom were Patients.