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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 ended 30th September, 1882.

Sub-districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet FeverDiphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever.Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhœa.Total.Remarks.
Spitalfields01100390023
Mile End New Town01105120019Workhouse.
Whitechapel North012003006
Whitechapel Church0104262015Hospital.
Goodman's Fields022113009
Aldgate000034007
Totals0165514372079
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1881.320122146690126

Three deaths from small-pox, of patients sent from this District, occurred in the
Small-pox Hospital. Four deaths from fever occurred in the Fever Hospital of persons
belonging to this District, thus making a total of 6 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 30th September, 1882.

Sub-districts.Euumerated Population in 1881.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.
Spitalfields2258517788352193102
Mile End New Town1547317314028193421176
Whitechapel North1000160291054250
Whitechapel Church7489572282333233639192
Goodman's Fields9713804416155020
Aldgate61024121664250
Totals7136358855011899794572270