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Whitechapel 1882

[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 ended1st April, 1882.

Sub-diotricts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet FeverDiphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhæa.Fever.Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhæa.Total.Remarks.
Spitalfields11002520029
Mile End New Town01011041017Workhouse.
Whitechapel North01001010012
Whitechapel Church0006534018Hospital.
010070008
Aldgate000020204
140759107088
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1881.53352418058

Two deaths from small-pox, of patients resident in this District, occurred in the
Small-pox Hospital, thus making 3 deaths from small-pox of persons resident in the
District. Two deaths from fever of residents in this District also occurred in the
Fever Hospital, thus making a total of 9 deaths from fever.

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 1st April, 1882.

Sub-districts.Enumerated Population in 1881.Births.Deaths.Under 1 year of age.1, and under 5 years.Persons aged GO years and upwards.Violence.Inquest cases.Deaths in Public Institutions.
SpitalfieldsUnrerised2258620011426281911163
Mile End New Town15474168178211968311114
Whitechapel North100018361151612170
Whitechapel Church7489682231426354045190
Goodman's Fields9708815117114250
Aldgate609244291232450
Totals71350*6446561051031406189307

*The last corrected return of the census is 71,301 or 49 less than in the uurevised return.