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Whitechapel 1867

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE IV —Ages at Death in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending 28th September, 1867

TABLE IV —Ages at Death in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending 28th September, 1867

Districts0 and under 11 and under 55 and under 2020 and under 4040 and under 6060 and under 8080 and upwardsTotalRemarks
Artillery1474120028Workhouse.
Spitalfields29183396169
Mile E. N. Town361352426332139
Whitechapel, N20224497268
Whitechapel Ch2524193841244175Hospital.
Goodman's Fields20110541142
Aldgate16143574049
Totals1601093880987510570

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From the above Table it will be seen that the rate of mortality of children under 5 years of age is very
high in most of the Sub-districts Thus, in the Artillery Sub-district, the mortality of young children in
relation to the total deaths is 75.0 per cent.; in the Goodman's Fields it is 73.8 per cent.; and in the
Spitalfield's it is 68.1 per cent.

Table: TABLE V —Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarter ending 28th September, 1867

TABLE V —Showing the Ages at Death in the Workhouse, and in the London Hospital for the Quarter ending 28th September, 1867

0 and under 11 and under 55 and under 2020 and under 4040 and under 6060 and under 8080 end upwardsTotal Males, 44 Females, 27Corresponding Quarter of 1866
Workhouse711152025271129
London Hospital27173628243Males,80.393
Females,37.
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A widow, aged 110 years, sustained a fracture of the leg from being rim over, and died in the London Hospital,