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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 1862

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE VI.—Table showing the aggregate number of Marriages, Births, and Deaths Registered in the Superintendent Registrar's District in the Ten Tears 1851-60, and the excess of Registered Births over Deaths.

TABLE VI.—Table showing the aggregate number of Marriages, Births, and Deaths Registered in the Superintendent Registrar's District in the Ten Tears 1851-60, and the excess of Registered Births over Deaths.

Population.Registered in the ten years 1851-60.Excess of Registered Births over Deaths 1851-60.Decrease of Population in the interval of the Censuses 1851-61.Density of Population—number of square yards to each person.
18511861Marriages.Births.Deaths.
79,75978,9707,31727,75324,1323,62178924.3

Table: TABLE VII.—Houses and Population, 1851 and 1861, and Annual Value of Property Assessed in the several Parishes within the Whitechapel District.

TABLE VII.—Houses and Population, 1851 and 1861, and Annual Value of Property Assessed in the several Parishes within the Whitechapel District.

18 5 1.18 6 1.Annual Value of Property as per Country Rate, or like basis, Jan., 1862.Annual Value of Property as per Poor Rate, Nov., 1862.
Inhabited Houses.Population.Inhabited Houses.Population.
1 Whitechapel442437848439537454£111,866£118,880 10
2 Spitalfields21542096020632059337,87640,137 0
3 Aldgate4854163470400050,92033,979 0
4 Holy Trinity Minories63572454206,0895,865 0
5 Precinct of St. Katharine.12517920817,32815,649 0
6 Hamlet of M. E. N. Town11721018311781084513,13215,833 10
7 Liberty of Norton Folgate223177122718738,1087,552 0
8 Old Artillery Ground182197219221684,0594,252 0
9 District of the Tower9717738514092,7992,912 0
Totals881279759866478970£252,177£245,060 0