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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 July, 1858.
| Districts. | WEEKS ENDING | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April. | May. | June. | Total Males 294 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Females 214 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | 17 | 24 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 22 | 29 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 26 | 3 | — | |||||||||||||||
| 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. | Grand Total 538 | |
| Artillery | 30 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | — | ||||
| Spitalfields | 86 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | Non-Residents 58 | |
| Mile End New Town | 106 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | — | |
| Whitechapel, North | 67 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | Total Births 687 | ||
| Whitechapel Church | 112 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Excess of Births over Deaths,excluding the deaths of Non-residents 207 | |
| Goodman's Fields | 60 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | .3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Aldgate | 77 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | |
| 27 | 13 | 24 | 15 | 18 | 12 | 34 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 17 | 20 | 16 | 42 | 28 | 22 | 32 | 18 | 16 | 22 | 17 | 22 | 21 | Total Deaths for the corresponding Quarter of 1857 521 | ||
| Totals | 538 | 43 | 39 | 30 | 49 | 37 | 50 | 41 | 36 | 46 | 54 | 34 | 33 | 43 | ||||||||||||||
| Inquests | 1 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | , 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 6 | Total 56 | ||||||||||||||