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Whitechapel 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE VII
Table showing the number of Deaths in each Week in the Whiteehapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 28th March, 1857.
| Districts. | WEEKS ENDING | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | February | March | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 10 | 17 | 24 | 31 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | Total Males | 334 | ||||||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |||
| Artillery | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | Total Females | 335 |
| Spitalfields | 5 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Mile End New Town | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | Grand Total | 669 |
| Whitechapel, North | 6 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||
| Whiteehapel Church | 9 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | ||
| Goodman's Fields | 6 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Aldgate | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | Total Deaths for the corresponding Quarter of 1856, 631. | |
| Totals | 36 | 39 | 22 | 33 | 29 | 30 | 26 | 29 | 32 | 23 | 33 | 23 | 33 | 23 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 17 | 18 | 23 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 30 | 24 | 21 | ||
| 75 | 55 | 59 | 55 | 55 | 56 | 56 | 42 | 46 | 41 | 42 | 52 | 45 | ||||||||||||||||
| Inquests | 16 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 3 | Total | 70 | |||||||||||||