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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 VII.
Table showing the number of Deaths in each Week in the Whitechapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 27th Jane, 1857.
| Districts. | WEEKS ENDING. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Males | 304 | ||
| Artillery | 29 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Spitalfields | 71 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | Total Females | 217 |
| Mile End New Town | 80 | 11 | 3 | 4 | I | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Whitechapel, North | 103 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Grand Total | 521 |
| Whitechapel Church | 135 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Goodman's Fields | 45 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Aldgate | 58 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Non-Residents | 50 |
| Totals | 34 | 23 | 17 | 13 | 13 | 20 | 25 | 16 | 23 | 23 | 29 | 27 | 17 | 13 | 25 | 13 | 22 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 28 | 14 | 29 | 13 | 25 | 17 | Total Deaths for the corresponding Quarter of 1856, 521. | ||
| 521 | 57 | 30 | 33 | 41 | 46 | 56 | 30 | 38 | 41 | 23 | 42 | 42 | 42 | ||||||||||||||||
| Inquests | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 6 | Total | 57 | ||||||||||||||