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

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Whitechapel 1878

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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TABLE II.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases for the Three Months ended 28th December, 1873.

Sub-districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.HoopingCough.Diarrhœa.Fever.Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhœa.Total.Remarks.
Spitalfields0312122011
Mile End New Town0830310015Workhouse.
Whitechapel North021002005
Whitechapel Church000100809Hospital.
Goodman's Fields000010001
Aldgate000000101
Totals013535511042
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1877.3108041211048

No deaths from small-pox of patients belonging to this District occurred in the SmallPox
Hospital at Homerton. No death from fever occurred in the Fever Hospital.

TABLE III.

Showing Sub-districts, Enumerated Population, Total Births, and Deaths from all causes— Deaths under 1 year of age, 1 and under 5 years, and above 60 years; Deaths from Violence, Inquest cases, and Deaths in Workhouse and London Hospital, for the Quarter ended 28th Dec., 1878.

Sub-districts.Enumerated Population in 1871.Births.Deaths.Under 1 year of age.1, and under 5 years.Persons aged 60 years and upwards.Violence.Inquest cases.Deaths in Public Institutions.
Spitalfields224991801073116236195
Mile End New Town155501661632524601497
Whitechapel North11597974819136230
Whitechapel Church732265208710414147168
Goodman's Fields1038183401958250
Aldgate92244727345280
Totals76573638593104721435486270