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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.
T able showing the number of Deaths in each Week in the Whitechapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 26th September, 1857.
| Districts. | WEEKS ENDING. | Total Males 290 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July. | August. | September. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total. | 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 261 | |
| Artillery | 24 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Grand Total 551 |
| Spitalfields | 73 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Mile End New Town | 115 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 | Non-Residents 63 |
| Whitechapel, North | 92 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | |
| Wliitechapel Chnrch | 107 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | Cases of Violent Death 5 |
| Goodman's Fields | 63 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | |
| Aldgate | 77 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 68 |
| 24 | 18 | 11 | 8 | 27 | 24 | 15 | 18 | 36 | 23 | 30 | 16 | 25 | 20 | 16 | 19 | 27 | 27 | 16 | 28 | 31 | 19 | 14 | 26 | 18 | 15 | Total Deaths for the corresponding Quarter of last year 510 | ||
| Totals | 551 | 42 | 19 | 51 | 33 | 59 | 46 | 45 | 35 | 54 | 44 | 50 | 40 | 33 | ||||||||||||||
| Inquests | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 3 | Total 47 | ||||||||||||||