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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 1896
The annual report on the sanitary condition of the Whitechapel District, (with vital and other statistics), for the year 1896 (consisting of 53 weeks) being the thirteenth annual report
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SPECIAL RETURNS
Ordered By the Local Government Board.
AREA AND POPULATION
OF THE DISTRICT
TO WHICH THESE RETURNS RELATE:—
Area in Acres, 406 (Including 23 Acres of Water).
Population in 1891, 74,261.
„ 1896, 78,676.
Census of Public Institutions
On the Night of December 31st, 1896:—
The London Hospital 990*
1,582
The Whitechapel Union Infirmary = 592†
* 635 or whom were Patients.
† 528 or whom were Patients.