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Whitechapel 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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Table A.—Births and Deaths registered in the Whitechapel District during the thirteen weeks ending June 28th, 1884.
| Total Bieths Registered—683. | Total Deaths Registered—531. | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spitalfields. | Mile End New Twn. | Whitchpl. Church. | Goodman's Fields. | Aldgate. | Males. | Females. | Spitalfields; | Mile End New Twn. | Whitchpl. Church. | Goodman's Fields. | Aldgate. | Males. | Females. | ||||||
| 197 | 218 | 152 | 70 | 46 | 337 | 346 | 101 | 139 | 257 | 21 | 13 | 299 | 232 | ||||||
| Table B.—The Whitechapel Infirmary being in the Mile End New Town District, the 28 births which took place in that Institution have been referred to the sub-Districts where the mothers previously resided. | As the deaths of 172 non-residents took place in the District, chiefly in the London Hospital which is in the Whitechapel Church sub-District, and 21 residents died in Public Institutions outside the District, I have referred the deaths of the 380 residents to their proper sub-Districts. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spitalfields. | Mile End New Town. | Whitechapl. Church. | Goodman's Fields. | Aldgate. | Spitalfields. | Mile End New Town. | Whitechapl. Church. | Goodman's Fields. | Aldgate. | ||||||||||
| 213 | 195 | 155 | 72 | 48 | 150 | 83 | 95 | 29 | 23 | ||||||||||
| Table C.—The 172 deaths of non-residents which took place in the District were registered in the sub-Districts as follows:— | The deaths of the 21 residents which took place in Public Institutions outside the District were disposed as follows :— | ||||||||||||||||||
| The German Hospital at Dalston | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| (Spitalfields, Met.Free Hos.) | Mile End New Town. (Infirmary.) | Whitechapl. Church, (Lond. Hos.) | Goodman's Fields. | Aldgate. | St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Children's Hospital at Shadwell | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Evelina Children's Hospital | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals, Camp and Ships | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | 166 | 0 | 0 | Charing Cross Hospital | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Military Station Hospital, Vauxhall | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chest Hospital, Victoria Park | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||