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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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 March 29th, 1884.
| Total Births Registered—630. | Total Deaths Registered—476. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Spital-fields. | 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. | |||||||
| 200 | 164 | 131 | 82 | 53 | 312 | 318 | 75 | 116 | 242 | 24 | 19 | 264 | 212 | |||||||
| Table B.—The Whitechapel Infirmary being in the Mile End New Town District, the 25 births which took place in that Institution have been deferred to the sub-Districts where the mothers previously resided. | As the deaths of 166 non-residents took place in the District, chiefly in the London Hospital which is in the Whitechapel Church sub-District, and 14 residents died outside the District, I have referred the deaths of the 324 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. | |||||||||||
| 191 | 166 | 136 | 84 | 53 | 111 | 68 | 86 | 34 | 25 | |||||||||||
| Table C.—The 166 deaths of non-residents which took place in the District were registered in the sub-Districts as follows:— | The deaths of the 14 residents which took place 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. | The German Hospital at Dalston | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| The Mile End Old Town Infirmary | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4' | 1 | 160 | 0 | 1 | The Middlesex Hospital | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| The Jews' Hospital, Mile End Road | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| The Military Station Hospital, Rochester Row | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||