Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE V.—Showing the Births and Deaths in each District, for the Three Months ending on the 2nd July, 1859.
Districts. | Births. | Total. | Deaths. | Total. | Excess of Births over Deaths. | Excess of Deaths. over Births. | Remarks. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M. | F | M. | F. | ||||||
Artillery | 40 | 31 | 71 | 16 | 9 | 25 | 46 | ||
Spitalfields | 60 | 65 | 123 | 52 | 45 | 77 | 46 | ||
Mile End New Town | 71 | 73 | 144 | 58 | 57 | 125 | 29 | ||
Whitechapel, N | 63 | 52 | 106 | 30 | 32 | 62 | 53 | ||
Whitechapel Church | 48 | 24 | 72 | 72 | 45 | 117 | 45 | 45 Non-residents. | |
Goodman's Fields | 69 | 48 | 117 | 27 | 23 | 50 | 67 | ||
Aldgate | 39 | 34 | 73 | 22 | 20 | 42 | 31 | 2 ” | |
390... | 325 | 715 | 257.. | 231 | 488 | 272 | 45 | 47 Non-residents. |
TABLE VI.—Ages at Death in the Union Workhouse.
0 and under 1 | 1 and under 5 | 5 and under 20 | 20 and under 40 | 40 and under 60 | 60 and under 80 | 80 and upwards. | Total | Corresponding Quarter of 1858. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 3 | 52 | 56 |
Three Deaths from Fever, (two Males and one Female), occurred in the Workhouse.