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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 28th March, 1857.
| Districts. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough. | Diarhœa. | 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 4 |
| Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 12 |
| Mile End New Town | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 3 | l8 | 8 | 26 | 34 |
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 28 | 35 |
| Whitechapel Church | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 7 |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 11 |
| Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 20 |
| 1 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 57 | 60 | 117 | 123 | ||
| 1 | 20 | 12 | 34 | 8 | 46 | 117 | ||||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics tor the corresponding Quarter of last year. | 12 | 4 | 9 | 30 | 4 | 64 | 123 | |||||||||
TABLE VI.— Table showing the number of Births in each Week in the Whitechapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 28th March, 1857.*
| Districts. | WEEKS ENDING | Total Males | 345 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | February | March | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 10 | 17 | 24 | 31 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | Total Females | 372 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Spitalfields | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 7 | Grand Total | 717 | |
| Mile End New Town | 10 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | ||
| Whitechapel, North | 5 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 6 | ||
| Whitechapel Church | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Total Births for the corresponding Quarter of last year 717. | |
| Goodman's Fields | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 10 | ||
| Aldgate | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||
| Total | 31 | 27 | 25 | 36 | 20 | 27 | 23 | 21 | 29 | 29 | 31 | 39 | 24 | 29 | 31 | 28 | 28 | 26 | 23 | 22 | 27 | 20 | 27 | 35 | 26 | 34 | ||
* All the Births which occur in the District, are not Registered. The Parents frequently neglect the duty of Registering the Birth of their Child, being nnder the
impression that Baptism is all that is required ; and it sometimes happens that the religious service of Baptism is neglected, when the civil duty of Registration has
been performed, and vice versa.