London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Whitechapel 1862

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

This page requires JavaScript

Table: TABLE V.—Whitechapel District. Area; Houses and Inhabitant, 1851, and 1861, Parishes, &c.

TABLE V.—Whitechapel District. Area; Houses and Inhabitant, 1851, and 1861, Parishes, &c.

Superintendent Registrar's District.Area in Statute Acres.1851.1861Persons.Males.Females.Total Increase+ or decrease.—
Sub-District.Parish or Place.Inhabited.UninhabitedBuilding.Inhabited.Uninhabited.Building.185118611851186118511861Houses 1861Population.
1 ArtilleryOld Artillery Ground—Liberty518215192519722618897102710751141+ 646
Norton Folgate—Liberty92236227717711873807869964977+ 5+ 102
Christ Church, Spital-fields, part ofParish a11357203126302625161454115915721357-59-510
2 SpitalfieldsChrist Church, Spital-fields, part of *Parish a531548481153337615336157007696792076407798-21+ 364
3 Mile End New TownChrist Church, Spital-fields, part of *Parish a1024942184259823771333122112651156-31+ 221
Mile End New Town ‡ Workhouse.Hamt. b421172201311783510183108455140533350435512+ 6+ 762
Whitechapel, part of *Parish c1223210238101762217086511548971016+ 6+ 408
4 Whitechapel NorthWhitechapel, part of †Parish d5814946931508431912530121226170611563606007+14+ 408
b W hitechapel ChurchWhitechapel, part of †Parish e4796733199936781880623882401039364052+ 32+ 224
6 Goodman's FieldsWhitechapel, part of †Parish f461319451512157011497107465708532357895423-104-751
Holy Trinity, Minories,Parish g5632454572420265203307217-18-152
7 AldgateWhitechapel, part of †Parish h114122743515424143542176221120652143+ 23+ 103
St. Botolph-without-Liberty37water.48515470191416340002078207020851930-15-163
Aldgate, or East
Smithfield.
St. Katharine-by-the-Tower.Precinet23water.1295172084551616247-3-309
Old Tower WithoutPrecinct *37water.412412819626609448210178-193
Tower of London4444964783736615218168-181
Entire Parishes.
* Spitalfields7421547212063476209602059310483102821047710311-91-467
† Whitechapel174442418419439517419378483745418801188131904718641-29-394
‡Stepney (Mile End Old and New Town) and part of Ratcliff812119305481691399154775802189883637128463314309052505+ 2061+ 18618

Text

Copy text to clipboard

The Whitechapel District, which includes a portion of the River Thames, contained in 1851 8,812 inhabited houses, and in 1861 only 8,664 or 148 less, while the population is only
789 less. In 1841 the inhabited houses were 8,834, and the population was 71,879, which gave upon an average 8.1 each house.
a The part of Spitalfields Parish comprised in Spitalfields Sub-District is bounded on the north by the Parish of Bethnal Green, on the south by the Parish of Whitechapel, on the
east by the centre of Brick Lane, and on the west by the centre of Wheeler Street, Crispin Street, and Bell Lane. The Artillery Sub-District contains all that part of the Parish which is
westward, and the Mile End New Town Sub-District all that part of the Parish which is eastward of the said boundary.
b The Hamlet of Mile End New Town is part of the ancient Parish of Stepney, but is a distinct Parish for the relief of the poor.
c The part of the Parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel, comprised in the Mile End New Town Sub-District, is bounded on the north and west by the Parish of Christ Church, Spitalfields,
on the east by the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town, and on the south by the centre of Montague Street.
d Whitechapel North Sub-District is bounded on the north partly by the Parish of Christ Church, Spitalfields, partly by the centre of Old Montague Street, and the Hamlet of Mile
End New Town, and partly by the Parish of Bethnal Green, and on the south by the centre of Whitechapel High Street and Whitechapel Road.
e Whitechapel Church Sub-District includes all that part of Whitechapel Parish which is bounded on the north by the centre of Whitechapel High Street and Whitechapel Road,
and on the south partly by the centre of Great Alie Street, Little Alie Street, Goodman's Stile, and Church Lane, and partly by the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
f The portion of Whitechapel Parish included in the Goodman's Fields Sub-District is bounded on the north by the centre of Great Alie Street, Little Alie Street, Goodman's Stile,
and Church Lane, and on the south by the centre of Royal Mint Street and Cable Street.
g Several houses in the Parish of Holy Trinity, Minories, have been demolished since 1851 for the construction of Warehouses.
h The part of Whitechapel Parish in Aldgate Sub-District is that lying southward of a line drawn through the centre of Royal Mint Street and Cable Street.
i In 1851 there were 979 persons on board vessels in the St. Katharine's Docks and off the Tower, while in 1861 the number was only 264. The Tower of London is a " Royal Palace
and Fortress," and is under the peculiar jurisdiction of the Constable of the Town.