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Whitechapel 1883

[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 29th December, 1883.

Sub-districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet FeverDiphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Cholera & Choleraic Diarrhoea.Total.Remarks.
Spitalfields002013006
Mile End New Town000102306Workhouse
Whitechapel North011011105
Whitechapel Church0004017012Hospital.
Goodman's Fields010001002
Aldgate000020103
Totals02354812034
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1882.0221132516059

One death from small-pox, of a patient sent from this District, occurred in the
Small-pox Hospital.

TABLE III.

Showing Sub-districts, Euumerated Population, Total Births, and Deaths from all causes— Deaths under 1 year of age, 1 and under 5 years, and above GO years; Deaths from Violence, Inquest cases, and Deaths in Workhouse and London Hospital, for the Quarter ended 29th December, 1883.

Sub-districts.Enumerated Population in 1881.j 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.
Spitalfields225851797024913351
Mile End New Town154731851342315442967
Whitechapel North100015835875240
Whitechapel Church7489542121832194146179
Goodman's Fields97136130546120
Aldgate610248281321240
Totals713635855099169885170247