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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 Quarter ending January 3rd, 1885 (14 weeks.)
| Total Bihths Registered—614. | Total Deaths Registered—617. | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||||
| 189 | 196 | 131 | 62 | 36 | 324 | 290 | 94 | 164 | 288 | 33 | 38 | 344 | 273 | ||||||||
| Table B.—The Whitechapel Infirmary being in the Mile End New Town sub-District, the 18 births which took place in that Institution have been referred to the sub-Districts where the mothers previously resided. | As the deaths of 196 non-residents took place in the District, chiefly in the London Hospital which is in the Whitechapel Church sub-District, and 23 residents died in Public Institutions outside the District, I have referred the deaths of the 444 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. | ||||||||||||
| 198 | 180 | 133 | 63 | 38 | 158 | 77 | 111 | 51 | 47 | ||||||||||||
| Table C.—The 196 deaths of non-residents which took place in the District were registered in the sub-Districts as follows:— | The deaths of the 23 residents which took place in Public Institutions outside the District occurred as follows:— | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Spitalfields, (Met. Free Hos.) | Mile End New Town. (Infirmary.) | Whitechapl. Church, (Lond. Hos.) | Goodman's Fields. | Aldgate. | The German Hospital at Dalston | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Children's Hospital at Shadwell | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals | Homerton Fever Hospital | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hospital Shin "Castalia" | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Highgate Small-pox Hospital | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2 | 189 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| The Surrey County Lunatic Asylum | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The City of London Chest Hospital | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Woolwich Union Infirmary | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||