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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 1861
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE XII—Summary of Courts and Places visited by the Inspectors from July, 1861; to the
28th day of December, 1861.
| Total. | Names of Courts or Places. | Number op Houses and Rooms, and Number of Inmates when Visited. | Courts or Places where Adults of both Sexes were ascertained to be Living and Sleeping in the same room, and Particulars of such Indecent Occupation. | Remarks. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Houses. | Number of Rooms. | Number of Inmates | ||||
| 1 | Union Court, Fashion Street | 11 | 33 | 113 | 1st case. Mother and son, 17 years old, sleeping in same room | Rooms average 15 by 18 by 8 |
| 2nd do. Father, mother, daughter, 19 years old, and two children ditto | ||||||
| 3rd do. Father, daughter, 17 years old, and two children ditto | ||||||
| 4th do. Husband, wife, and child, and husband's sister, a grown-up woman, ditto | ||||||
| 5th do. Father, daughter, 15 years old, and three children sleeping together | ||||||
| 6th do. Husband and wife and wife's father in one room | ||||||
| 7th do. Husband, wife, and daughter, 18 years old, sleeping together, ditto | ||||||
| 8th do. Ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto | ||||||
| 1 | Union Place, ditto | 3 | 6 | 6 | No Case of Indecent Occupation. | |
| 1 | New Court, ditto | 15 | 30 | 81 | 1st case. Father, mother, and two grown-up daughters in one room | Rooms average 8 by 8 by 7½ |
| 2nd do. Ditto ditto and one grown-up daughter ditto | ||||||
| 3rd do. Ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto | ||||||
| 1 | Rosemary Court, ditto | 4 | 12 | 13 | 1st case. Father, mother, and one grown-up daughter in one room | |
| 1 | Harriott Court, ditto | 8 | 17 | 42 | 1st case. Father and daughter, 17 years old, sleeping together | |
| 1 | Neatsby Court, ditto | 8 | 28 | 65 | No case of Indecent occupation. | |
| 1 | Crown Court, Glasshouse Street | 12 | 44 | 160 | 1st case. Aged mother, three sons, adults, and a child in one room | Rooms average 13 by 11 by 7 |
| 2nd do. Two men, with their wives and three children, ditto | ||||||
| 1 | Garden Court, ditto | 12 | 32 | 88 | No case of Indecent Occupation. | |
| 1 | Providence Court, ditto | 8 | 17 | 49 | 1st case. Mother and son, 18 years old, sleeping together | |
| 2nd do. Father, mother, mother-in-law, and two children in one room | ||||||
| 1 | Swan Court, ditto | 10 | 30 | 75 | 1 st case. Father, mother, 2 daughters, 18 and 25 years old, and 3 children in one room | Room 13 by 10, by 7 |
| 1 | Hayes Court, ditto | 8 | 24 | 83 | 1st case. Two men, with wives and two children, in one room | |
| 2nd do. Mother, daughter, 17 years old, and son, aged 18, in one room | ||||||
| I | Shorter's Rents, ditto | 10 | 30 | 85 | No case of Indecent Occupation. | |
| 1 | Hobson's Place, Pelham Street | 14 | 35 | 73 | 1st case. Brother and sister, 21 and 16 years old, sleeping in one room | Rooms average 13 by 12 by 7½ |
| 1 | Hobson's Court, ditto | 14 | 39 | 90 | 1st case. Mother, son, and daughter, son 16, daughter 15yrs. old, sleeping in one room | Rooms average 9 by 10 by 7½ |
| 2nd do. Brother, 17 years old, and sister, 15 years old, sleeping together | ||||||
| 1 | Rose Court, Blue Anchor Yard | 5 | 15 | 66 | No case of Indecent Occupation. | |
| 1 | Slaters Court, ditto | 10 | 31 | 170 | 1st case. Father, mother, and two sons, 16 and 20 years old, in one room | |
| 2nd do. Mother and three sons, 16, 18, and 20 years old, ditto | ||||||
| 1 | Holloway Court, ditto | 9 | 27 | 94 | 1st case. Father and mother, daughter, 20, and two sons, 14 and 22 old, in one room | |
| 2nd do. Father and mother, and son and wife ditto | ||||||
| 3rd do. Father and mother, son 20 years old, and child ditto | ||||||
| 1 | Cooper's Court, ditto | 14 | 36 | 129 | 1st case. Father and mother, son, 21, and daughter, 20 years old, in one room | |
| 2nd do. Husband and wife and wife's sister ditto | ||||||
| 3rd do. Father, mother, three daughters, 17, 18, and 20 yrs. old, and a child ditto | ||||||
| 4th do. Mother, adult daughter, and son, 15 years old, in one room | ||||||
| 5th do. Mother, daughter, 19, and son 20 years old ditto | ||||||
| 6th do. Mother, daugher, 19, sibm 17 yrs. old, and a child ditto | ||||||
| 1 | Kittleby Court, ditto | 11 | 29 | 113 | 1st case. Father and mother and two sons, 16 and 18 years old, in one room | |
| 1 | Russell Court, ditto | 10 | 30 | 117 | No case of Indecent Occupation. | |