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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 V.—Table showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases in the Whiteehapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 2nd January, 1858.
| Districts. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough, | Diarrhœa1 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 13 |
| Mile End New Town | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 17 |
| Whitechapel, North | 0 | o | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 16 |
| Whitechapel,Church | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 19 | 15 |
| Goodman's Fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 7 |
| Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 8 |
| 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 22 | 16 | 51 | 43 | 94 | 81 | |
| 0 | 10 | 11 | 20 | 15 | 38 | 94 | Fourteen Weeks. | Thirteen Weeks. | ||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics for the cor responding Quarter of last year. | 4 | 18 | 14 | 9 | 36 | 81 | ||||||||||
* Four Deaths from Cholera are recorded in the Whiteehapel District during this Quarter, viz :—two in Artillery District (Fisher's Alley and Gun Street), one in
Whiteehapel North, (Goulston Street), and one in Spitalfields, (King Street).
TABLE VI.— T able showing the number of Births in each Week in the Whiteehapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 2nd Jan., 1858,* (14 Weeks)
| Districts. | Total. | WEEKS ENDING. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October. | November. | December. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | M | F. | |||
| 57 133 | 1 5 | 4 2 | 0 0 | 3 | 1 5 | 5 1 | 3 3 | 1 7 | 1 10 | 1 1 | 2 5 | 2 5 | 2 4 | 4 15 | 2 2 | 4 8 | 3 1 | 0 3 | 1 7 | 4 4 | 4 4 | 1 8 | 0 6 | 1 11 | 0 4 | 2 3 | 0 4 | 5 1 | ||
| Spitalfields | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mile End New Town | 131 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | ||
| Whiteehapel, North | 150 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 9 | |
| Whiteehapel Church | 82 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | b | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | I | 2 | 3 | ft | 6 | |
| Goodman's Fields | 108 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | b | 1 | |
| Aldgate | 87 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 5 | last year 701 |
| Totals | 748 | 23 | 25 | 19 | 19 | 28 | 28 | 31 | 23 | 28 | 18 | 27 | 26 | 38 | 30 | 29 | 33 | 20 | 19 | 36 | 37 | 32 | 31 | 26 | 27 | 23 | 1 | 22 | 32 | |
* All the Births which occur in this District are not Registered, The Parents frequently neglect the duty of Registering the Birth of their Child, being
under 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. The fee required for the Registration of a birth after six weeks has elapsed, deters poor people from performing
this neccesary duty.