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 V.—Showing the Births, Deaths, Deaths of Non-residents, Deaths in the London Hospital and in the Workhouse, in each Year from 1857 to 1865.
Year. | Total Births. | Total Deaths. | Deaths of Non-Residents. | Total Deaths in the London Hospital. | Total Deaths in the Workhouse. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1857 (53 weeks) | 2868 | 2350 | 147 | 338 | 272 |
1858 | 2712 | 2444 | 140 | 325 | 269 |
1859 | 2826 | 2321 | 189 | 354 | 239 |
1860 | 2748 | 2302 | 163 | 326 | 282 |
1861 | 2686 | 2331 | 179 | 366 | 287 |
1862 | 2813 | 2551 | 187 | 330 | 369 |
1863 (53 weeks) | 2796 | 2764 | 181 | 418 | 324 |
1864 | 2803 | 2792 | 212 | 453 | 414 |
1865 | 2681 | 2532 | 208 | 416 | 362 |
The deaths of persons resident in the district which occurred in the London Hospital during tho year
1865 were only 47. The residences of those persons whose death was the result of accident are not given
in the Registrar's returns.
TABLE VI.—Ages at Death in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending 30th December, 1865.
Districts. | 0 and under 1. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 20. | 20 and under 40. | 40 and under 60. | 60 and under 80. | 80 and upwards. | Total. | Remarks. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artillery | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 29 | Workhouse. |
Spitalfields | 22 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 78 | |
Mile E. N. Town | 34 | 29 | 9 | 36 | 31 | 41 | 7 | 187 | |
Whitechapel, N. | 18 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 62 | |
Whitechapel Ch. | 11 | 16 | 18 | 41 | 42 | 19 | 2 | 149 | Hospital. |
Goodman'sFields | 19 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 64 | |
Aldgate | 9 | 18 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 51 | |
Totals | 119 | 117 | 52 | 109 | 106 | 102 | 15 | 620 |
TABLE VII.—The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the 30th December, 1865.
Districts. | Births. | Total. | Deaths. | Total. | Excess of Births over Deaths. | Excess of Deaths over Births. | Remarks. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M. | F. | M. | F. | ||||||
Artillery | 23 | 20 | 43 | 16 | 13 | 29 | 14 | 0 | |
Spitalfields | 68 | 56 | 124 | 42 | 36 | 78 | 46 | 0 | |
Mile End N. Town | 75 | 67 | 142 | 99 | 88 | 187 | 0 | 45 | Workhouse. |
Whitechapel, N. | 53 | 53 | 106 | 34 | 28 | 62 | 44 | 0 | |
Whitechapl. Church | 33 | 42 | 75 | 100 | 49 | 149 | 0 | 74 | London Hospital. |
Goodman's Fields | 50 | 45 | 95 | 28 | 36 | 64 | 31 | 0 | |
Aldgate | 32 | 28 | 60 | 25 | 26 | 51 | 9 | 0 | 60 non-residents died in Lon. Hos. |
Totals | 334 | 311 | 645 | 344 | 276 | 620 | 144 | 109 | Excess of births over deaths, deducting the 68 non-residents - 85 |
Population in 1861, 78,970.