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Whitechapel 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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T able A. —Births and Deaths registered in the Whitechapel District during the 53 weeks of the Year 1884 which terminated January 3rd, 1885.
| Total Births Registered—2500. | Total Deaths Registered—2219. | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spitalfields. | Mile End New Twn. | Whitchpl. Church. | Goodman's Eields. | Aldgate. | Males. | Females | Spitalfields; | Mile End New Twn. | Whitchpl. Church. | Goodman's Fields. | Aldgate. | Males | Females | ||||||||
| 763 | 759 | 524 | 173 | 1254 | 1246 | 398 | 543 | 1070 | 117 | 91 | 1232 | 987 | |||||||||
| Table B.—The Whitechapel Infirmary being in the Mile End New Town sub-District, the 96 births which took place in that Institution have been referred to the sub-Districts where the mothers previously resided. The amended Table is therefore given:— | As the deaths of 722 non-residents took place in the District, chiefly in the London Hospital which is in the Whitechapel Church sub-District, and 74 residents died in Public Institutions outside the District, I have referred the deaths of the 1571 residents to their proper sub-Districts. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Spitalfields. | Mile End New Town. | Whitechapl. Church. | Goodman's Fields. | Aldgate. | Spitalfields. | Mile End j New Town. | Whitechapl. Church. | Goodman's Fields. | Aldgate. | ||||||||||||
| 791 | 701 | 540 | 582 | 314 | 395 | 169 | 111 | ||||||||||||||
| Table C.—The 722 deaths of non-residents which took place in the District -were registered in the sub-Districts as follows:— | The deaths of the 74 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. | German Hospital at Dalston | Jews' Hospital, Mile End-road | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 1 | 5 | Chest Hospital, Victoria Park | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals, Camp and Ships | 27 | Military Station Hospital | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| City of London Chest Hospital | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Highgate Small-pox Hospital | 1 | Surrey County Lunatic Asylum | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | 6 | 698 | 0 | 3 | Guy's Hospital | 1 | Woolwich Union Infirmary ... | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Charing Cross Hospital | 1 | Mile End Old Town Infirmary | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Middlesex Hospital | 1 | Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Children's Hospital, Shadwell | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Evelina Children's Hospital | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||