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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 1874
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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| Districts. | Rate of Mortal-ity per 1,000. | Deaths of children under 1 year. | Deaths of children under 5 years. | Proportion, per cent. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of deaths of children under 1 year to total deaths. | Of deaths of children nnder 5 years to total deaths. | Of deaths of children under 1 year to total births. | Of deaths of children under 5 years to total births. | ||||
| Artillery | 24.3 | 38 | 69 | 23.4 | 16.1 | 20.3 | |
| Spitalfields | 22.7 | 104 | 191 | 23.7 | 52.7 | 20.7 | 38 0 |
| Mile End New T. | 2G.7 | 114 | 191 | 27.4 | 46.0 | 17.0 | 29.5 |
| Whitechapel Nth. | 2G.3 | 83 | 130 | 27.1 | 42.4 | 19.5 | 30.5 |
| ,, Church | 23.4 | 47 | 108 | 27.3 | 02.8 | 17.1 | 39.4 |
| Goodman's Fields | 21.3 | 72 | 99 | 32.7 | 45.0 | 20.7 | 28.5 |
| Aldgate | 25.4 | 47 | 85 | 20.0 | 36.1 | 20.5 | 37.1 |
On perusing the preceding table, it will be seen that the mortality of
children under 1 year and under 5 is very large, both as regards its relation
to the total deaths and to the registered births. The rate of mortality of
children under 1 and under 5, is lower in relation to the total deaths, in the
Aldgate sub-district than in any of the others. Under 1 year, the proportion
is 20.0 per cent.; and under 5 it is 36.1. The rate of mortality of
children under 1 varies in the other sub-districts, from 23.4 to 32.7 per cent.;
and under 5 years from 62.8 to 42.4 per cent. The birth rate varies from
24.8 per 1000 of the population (Aldgate) to 41.5 per 1000 (Mile End
New Town); the birth rate in the other sub-districts is as follows: Spitalfields
31.0 per 1000, Goodman's Fields 33.4 per 1000, Artillery 35.3 per 1000,
Whitechapel North, 30.6 per 100, and Whitechapel Church, 37.4 per 1000.
The small birth rate in the Aldgate sub-district may be accounted for
by there being in it a large proportionate male population, viz., 5014 males
and only 4910 females, while in the Artillery, Whitechapel Church, and
Goodman's Fields sub-districts the females are in excess of the males.
The deaths of children under 1 year in the entire district during this
quarter have been 89, which is 13.8 per cent. of the total mortality, and
the deaths under u years have been 217, which is 33.7 per cent. The
deaths of children under 1 year, in relation to births, have been 14.0 per
cent. and under 5 years 34.1 per cent.
The birth rate for the entire district has been during this quarter at
the annual rate of 33.7 per 1000.
Improved Dwellings for the Labouring Classes.
This subject has lately engaged, and is still engaging, the serious
attention of the public, and efforts are being made by memorials and
deputations to the Government to induce them to give their earnest
attention to this important subject, and bring in one or more bills to