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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 1867

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE II — Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases For the Three Months ending 28th December, 1867

TABLE II — Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases For the Three Months ending 28th December, 1867

DistrictsSmall-PoxMeaslesScarlet FeverDiphtheriaHooping-CoughDiarrliœaFeverCholera and Choleraic DiarrhoeaTotalRemarks
Artillery000010203Work house
Spitalfields0510225015
Mile End N Twn02401213022
Whitechapel, N1300415014
Whitechapel Ch3401223015Hsptl
Goodman's Fields100040308
Aldgate000003407
Totals51451141035084
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding quarter, 1866961811681995172

Table: TABLE III —The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the 28th December, 1867

TABLE III —The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the 28th December, 1867

DistrictsBirthsTotalDeathsTotalExcess of Births over DeathsExcess of Deaths over BirthsRemarks
ArtilleryMFMF3280Workhouse
2218401913
Spitalfields6651117443579380
Mile End N. Town.7979158866615260
Whitechapel, N5652108352358600London Hospital
Whitechapl Church342963106691750121
Goodman's Fields524799273259400
Aldgate33255824204414064 non-residents died in L . Hos
Totals342301643341278599156112Excess of births over deaths, deducting the 64 non-residents 108

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Population in 1861, 78,970.