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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 1858
[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 3rd April, 1858.
| Districts. | Total. | WEEKS ENDING. | Total Males | 368 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January. | February. | March. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Females | 318 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Artillery | 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. | Grand Total | 686 | |
| 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 9, | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Spitalfields | 86 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | Non-residents | 77 |
| Mile End New Town | 146 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | ||
| Whitechapel, North | 144 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 3 . | 6 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 609 | |
| Whitechapel Church | 142 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | ||
| Goodman's Fields | 66 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | Total Births | 744 |
| Aldgate | 76 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 . | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | ||
| Totals | 686 | 17 | 19 | 19 | . 21 | 28 | 20 | 34 | 29 | 21 | 24 | 27 | 17 | 33 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 26 . | 25 | 28 | 23 | 44 | 41 | 27 | 27 | 42 | 28 | Excess of Births | over |
| 36 | 40 | 48 | 63 | 45 | 44 | 55 | 44 | 51 | 51 | 85 | 54 | 70 | |||||||||||||||||
| Inquests | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 14 | Total | 58 | ||||||||||||||