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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.— T able showing the Deaths from Epidemic Oiseases in the Whiteehapel ^District, for the Three Months ending on the 3rd July, 1858.
| Districts. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough | Diarrhoea | Typhus. | Total. | Grand Total. | Grand Total. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | 1858 | 1857 | ||
| Artillery | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 4 | ||
| Spitalfields | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | |||
| Mile End New Town | 0 | 0 | ] | 3 | 2 | l | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 3 | l6 | 10 | 26 | 9 |
| Whiteehapel, North | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 15 | |
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 8 | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 15 | 10 | |
| Aldgate | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | |||
| 1 | 0 | . 19 | 5 | . 4 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 51 | 49 | 106 | 73 | |||
| 1 | 37 | 9 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 106 | |||||||||
| Deaths from Epidemics forthe corresponding Quarter of last year. | 0 | 14 | 7 | 22 | 14 | 16 | 73 | ---- | ||||||||
In the Goodman's Fields District, 2 deaths irom Diptheria, are recorded.
In the Spitalfields District, a death from Childbed-Fever, is recorded.
In the Aldgate District, 2 deaths from Cholera, are recorded.
TABLE VI.—Table showing the number of Births in each M eek in the Whitechapel District, for the Three Months ending on the 3rd JuIy, 1858,*
| Districts. | WEEKS ENDING. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April. | May. | June. | Total Males 333 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | 17 | 24 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 22 | 29 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 26 | 3 | Total Females 354 | |||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||
| Artillery | 57 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | — |
| Spital fields | 148 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | Garnd Total 687 |
| Mile End New Town | 139 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | |
| Whitechapel, North | 116 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 4 | O | 6 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4. | 4 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | |
| Whitechapel Church | 52 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | Total Births for the corresponding Quarter of last year 707 |
| Goodman's Fields | 85 | o | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 8 | |
| Aldgate | 90 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Totals | 687 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 32 | 27 | 25 | 32 | 39 | 31 | 25 | 35 | 26 | 32 | 27 | 14 | 24 | 20 | 33 | 17 | 26 | 28. | 17 | 26 | 31 | 24 | 25 | |
*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 necessary duty.