London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Whitechapel 1876

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

This page requires JavaScript

Table: TABLE II.Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ending1st April, 1876.

TABLE II.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ending

1st April, 1876.

Districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever.Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhœa.Total.Remarks.
Spitalfields0020701010
Mile End New Town020040107Workhonse.
Whitechapel North001060007
Whitechapel Church0410512013Hospital.
Goodman's Fields0011512010
Aldgate00001011012
Totals06513737059
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1875.1184365028

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Fourteen deaths from fever of patients belonging to this District occurred in the Asylum
District Fever Hospital at Homerton.

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 April, 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 April, 1876.

Sub-districts.Enumerated Population in 1871.Births.Deaths.Under 1 year of age.Persons aged 60 years and upwards.Violence.Inquest cases.Deaths in Public Institutions.
Spitalfields224991959827235170
Mile End New Town155501711622864420104
Whitechapel North11597119591612040
Whitechapel Church7322802298304952185
Goodman's Fields103819856169130
Aldgate9224584974150
Totals72165310214260101289