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

View report page

Whitechapel 1876

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

This page requires JavaScript

TABLE II.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ending 30th September 1876.

Districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever.Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhea;Total.Remarks.
Spitalfields00002161019
Mile End New Town00000210021Workhouse.
Whitechapel North01100130015
Whitechapel Church01210101015Hospital.
Goodman's Fields0000290011
Aldgate00000112013
Totals02314804094
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1875.0107315576098

Two deaths from fever of patients belonging to this District occurred in the Asylum
District Fever Hospital at Homerton, thus increasing the total deaths from 5 to 6.

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 30th September, 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.
Spitalfields22499179873597134
Mile End New Town15550180119392221359
Whitechapel North115979750216340
Whitechapel Church73227121222244958167
Goodman's Fields103817941213230
Aldgate92243453113460
Totals640562149676797230