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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 1868

[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 26th December, 1868.

TABLE II.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 26th December, 1868.

Districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet-Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Cholera.Total.Remarks.
Artillery010000001
Spitalfields1240036016
Mile End New Town06803215034Workhouse.
Whitechapel, North001011609
Whitechapel Church0341103012Hospital.
Goodman's Fields011000204
Aldgate001212208
Total1131936834084
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1867.51451141035084

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There were 2 deaths from pyaemia in the London Hospital, 1 from measles, 1 from diphtheria
and 4 from fever. In the Workhouse there were 2 deaths from scarlet fever, 3 from measles
and 7 from fever.

Table: TABLE III.The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the 26th December, 1868.

TABLE III.

The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the 26th December, 1868.

Districts.Births.Total.Deaths.Total.Excess of Births over Deaths.Excess of Deaths over Births.Remarks
M.F.MF.Workhouse.
Artillery243054141125290
Spitalfields6458122433578440
MileEndN.Town638514810287189041
Whitechapel, N.444690292756340London Hospital.
WliitechplChurch34417511160171096
Goodman's Fields48509819325147081 Non-residents died in the London Hospital.
Aldgate32205232275907
Totals309330639350279629154144Excess of Deaths over Births, deducting the 81 non-residents, 91.
Population in 1861, 78,970.