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Whitechapel 1876

[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 ending1st January, 1876.

TABLE II.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ending

1st January, 1876.

Districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhœa.Total.Remarks.
Spitalfields2320633019
Mile End New Town01031521022Workhouse.
Whitechapel, North0740302016Hospital.
Whitechapel Church002114109
Goodman's Fields0111332011
Aldgate010062009
Total22212324149086
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1875.055931317088

Table: TABLE III.Showing Sub-districts. Enumerated Population, Total Births, and Deaths from all causes. Deaths under 1 year of age and above 60 years ; Deaths from Violence, Inquest cases, and Deaths in Workhouse and London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 1st January, 1876.

TABLE III.

Showing Sub-districts. Enumerated Population, Total Births, and Deaths from all causes. Deaths under 1 year of age and above 60 years ; Deaths from Violence, Inquest cases, and Deaths in Workhouse and London Hospital, for the Quarter ending 1st January, 1876.

Sub-districts.Enumerated Population in 1871.Births.Deaths.Under 1 year of age.Persons aged 60 ye?rs and upwards.Violence.Inquest cases.Deaths in Public Institutions.
224991789833144130
Mile End New Town15550164156324761775
Whitechapel North ...115979867197270
Whitechapel Church7322572239304048187
Goodman's Fields ...103819962159120
922457632363110
Totals.........6536591311135698262

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???death from fever of a patient belonging to this District occurred in the Asylum District
Fever Hospital at Homerton.