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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 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE V.— Table showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whitechapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 27th June, 1857.
| Districts. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhœa. | Typhus. | Total. | Grand Total. | Grand Total. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | 1857. | 1856. | |
| Artillery | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | |
| Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 13 | |||||
| Mile End New Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 25 | ||
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 30 | ||
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | ||
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 7 |
| 11 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 42 | 31 | 73 | 91 | |||||
| 14 | 7 | 14 | 73 | |||||||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter of last year. | 12 | 1 | 5 | 55 | 91 | |||||||||||
TABLE VI.—Table showing the number of Births in each Week in the Whitechapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 27th June, 1857.*
| Districts. | WEEKS ENDING. | Total Males | 376 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April. | May. | June. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total. | 4 | 11 | 18 | 25 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 30 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 27 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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. | Total Females | 331 | ||
| Artillery | 53 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Spitalfields | 137 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Mile End New Town | 126 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Grand Total | 707 |
| Whitechapel, North | 135 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 9 | ||
| Whitechapel Church | 54 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Goodman's Fields | 103 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | Total Births for the corresponding Quarter of last year 730. | |
| Aldgate | 99 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Totals | 707 | 22 | 39 | 29 | 28 | 31 | 42 | 35 | 28 | 25 | 17 | 36 | 37 | 20 | 20 | 37 | 12 | 29 | 22 | 26 | 18 | 30 | 23 | 28 | 26 | ||||