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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 VIII.—Ecclesiastical Districts.
| New Parish or Ecclesiastical District. | Original or Mother Church. | Houses. | Population. | Date of Formation. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inhabited. | Uninhabited. | Building. | Persons. | Males. | Females. | |||
| St. Jude | Whitechapel. | 721 | 10 | 10 | 6652 | 3393 | 3259 | 1848 |
| St. Mark | Whitechapel. | 1656 | 85 | — | 15326 | 7747 | 7579 | 1841 |
| St. Stephen | Spitalfields. | 535 | 15 | 4 | 5090 | 2514 | 2576 | 1858 |
| All Saints, Mile End New Town | Stepney. | 1178 | 35 | - | 10845 | 5333 | 5512 | 1841 |
| St. Mary, Spital Square | Old Artillery Ground | 192 | 5 | - | 2168 | 1027 | 1141 | |
| Liberty, Norton Folgate. | 227 | 7 | — | 1873 | 896 | 977 | 1842 | |
TABLE IX.—Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1851 and 1861, in Sub-Districts.
| Sub-Districts. | Area in Statute Acres. | Houses. | Population. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 5 1. | 18 6 1. | Persons. | Males. | Females. | |||||||||
| Inhabited | Uninhabited | Building. | Inhabited. | Uninhabited | Building. | 1851 | 1861 | 1851 | 1861 | 1851 | 1861 | ||
| Artillery | 25 | 762 | 41 | - | 731 | 18 | — | 6769 | 6557 | 3158 | 3082 | 3611 | 3475 |
| Spitalfields | 53 | 1548 | 48 | 1 | 1533 | 37 | 6 | 15336 | 15700 | 7696 | 7902 | 7640 | 7798 |
| Mile End N. Town | 64 | 1653 | 34 | 13 | 1634 | 49 | — | 14543 | 15392 | 7338 | 7708 | 7205 | 7684 |
| Whitecpi. North | 58 | 1494 | 69 | 6 | 1508 | 43 | 19 | 12530 | 12122 | 6170 | 6115 | 6360 | 6007 |
| Whitechapel Ch. | 47 | 976 | 33 | 1 | 999 | 36 | — | 7818 | 8062 | 3882 | 4010 | 3936 | 4052 |
| Goodman's Fields | 51 | 1382 | 47 | 15 | 1260 | 74 | - | 12069 | 11166 | 5973 | 5526 | 6096 | 5640 |
| Aldgate | 108water. | 1006 | 44 | — | 999 | 36 | 1 | 10694 | 9971 | 6054 | 5505 | 4640 | 4466 |
From the above Table it appears that the total number of inhabited Houses in the entire District in 1851 was 8,821, and the population
was 79,759, which upon an average is 9 persons to each House. In 1861 the number of Houses was 8,664, or 157 less, and the
population was 78,970, or 789 less. The average number to a house is now 9.1. In the Mile End New Town Sub-District the number of
Houses in 1861 was less by 19 than it was in 1851 while the population has increased 849. In 1851 the average number to a House in this
Sub-District was 8.7, while it is now 9.4. In the Spitalfields Sub-District the number of Houses is less by 15, and the population is greater
by 364. The average number of persons to each house has increased from 9.9 to 10.2.