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 VI.—Vaccination Extension Act—Whitechapel Union—for the Year ending September 29 The, 1864.
Names of the whole of the Public Vaccinators of the Union. | Vaccination Districts. | Number and Ages of Persons Vaccinated by the Public Vaccinators. | Number of such cases successfully Vaccinated. | Number of Rgistered Births of all classes during the year, including the Workhouse and the whole of the Parishes in the Union. | ||||
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Under One Year. | Above One Year. | Total. | Under One Year. | Above One Year. | Total. | |||
Thomas. S. Blackwell | Christchurch | 114 | 4 | 118 | 114 | 4 | 118 | 534 |
James Edmunds | Old Artillery Ground | 96 | 48 | 144 | 96 | 48 | 144 | 228 |
Alex. M. Champneys | Mile End New Town | 123 | 10 | 133 | 123 | 10 | 133 | 677 |
Edward Richardson | Whitechapel North | 277 | 27 | 304 | 277 | 27 | 304 | 413 |
C. T. Blackmail | Whitechapel Church | 281 | 23 | 304 | 281 | 23 | 304 | 322 |
J. S. Sequeira | Goodman's Fields | 311 | 32 | 343 | 311 | 32 | 343 | 427 |
John Wells | Aldgate | 26 | 3 | 29 | 26 | 3 | 29 | 265 |
Totals | 1288 | 147 | 1375 | 1228 | 147 | 1375 | 2876 | |
For the year ended September 29th, | 1861 | 1956 | 243 | 2199 | 1933 | 235 | 2168 | 2717 |
Ditto ditto | 1862 | 1690 | 166 | 1856 | 1671 | 164 | 1835 | 2757 |
Ditto ditto | 1863 | 1913 | 3563 | 5476 | 1912 | 3561 | 5473 | 2788 |
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The disproportion in the number of births in the Artillery and Aldgate Districts in relation to the population in each, is very striking. In the former, the population is 6557,
and the births are 228. In the latter, the population is 9971, and the births are only 265.