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Whitechapel 1884

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: Table A. —Births and Deaths registered in the Whitechapel District during the thirteen weeks ending Sept. 27th, 1884.

Table A. —Births and Deaths registered in the Whitechapel District during the thirteen weeks ending Sept. 27th, 1884.

Total Births Registered—573.Total Deaths Registered—595.
Spital-fields.Mile End New Twn.Whitohpl. Church.Goodman's Fields.Aldgate.Males.Females.Spitalfields;Mile End New Twn.Whitchpl. Church.Goodman's Fields.Aldgate.Males.Females.
17718111067382812921281242833921325270
Table B.—The Whitechapel Infirmary being in the Mile End New Town District, the 25 births which took place in that Institution have been referred to the sub-Districts where the mothers previously resided.As the deaths of 188 non-residents took place in the District, chiefly in tho London Hospital which is in the Whitechapel Church sub-District, and 16 residents died in Public Institutions outside the District, I have referred the deaths of the 423 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.
1891601146941163861035516
Table C.—The 188 deaths of non-residents which took place in the District were registered in the sub-Districts as follows: —The deaths of the 16 residents which took placo in Public Institutions outside the District were disposed as follows :—
Spitalfields, (Met. Free Hos.)Mile End New Town. (Infirmary.)Whitechapl. Church, (Lond. Hos.)Goodman's Fields.Aldgate.St. Bartholomew's Hospital2
Children's Hospital at Shadwell2
1218302The Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals, Camp and Ships11
Guy's Hospital1