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Whitechapel 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: Table A.—Births Registered in the Whitechapel District during the year 1889.

Table A.—Births Registered in the Whitechapel District during the year 1889.

Sub Registration Districts.Spital-fields.Mile End New TownWhite-chapel Church.Goodmans Fields.Aldgate.Total.
Boys.Girls.
First Quarter.1992171564544341320
Second ,,1932481525762344368
Third ,,1661881405542296295
Fourth ,,1852231476351333336
Total7438765952201992633*

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* Correct number 2627, because 6 Non-Residents were born in the Infirmary.

Table: Table B.—Deaths Registered in the Whitechapel District during the year 1889

Table B.—Deaths Registered in the Whitechapel District during the year 1889

Sub-Registration Districts.Spital-fields.Mile End New TownWhitechapel Church.Goodmans Fields.Aldgate.Total.
Males.Females.
First Quarter.821592942329337250
Second ,,601132662627276216
Third „641272661721275220
Fourth ,,95I502822826339242
Total301549ii08941032155

Table: Table C.—The 749 Deaths of Non-Residents which took place in the District were Registered as under :

Table C.—The 749 Deaths of Non-Residents which took place in the District were Registered as under :

Spitalfields.Mile End New Town (Whitechapel Infirmary).Whitechapel Church (London Hospital).Goodman's Fields.Aldgate.
24738I4

Table: Table D.— Outlying Public Institutions, &c., where Residents of the Whitechapel District Died.

Table D.— Outlying Public Institutions, &c., where Residents of the Whitechapel District Died.

Asylums Board Hospitals17Brought over93
Cancer Hospital, Fulham1Holborn Workhouse1
Central London Sick Asylum1Holborn, Harper Street1
Convent Hospital2Jews' Hospital and Asylum5
City Infirmary2Middlesex Hospital2
City of London Chest Hospital3Millwall Docks1
Charing Cross Hospital1National Hospital for Paralysis1
Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street1Poplar, Clark's Yarn1
St. Bartholomew's Hospital14
Children's Hospital, Shadwell15St. Peter's Hospital1
____Banstead8St. Elizabeth's Home3
Extra Metropolitan AsylumsColneyHatch14Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich1
Leavesden8Throat Hospital, Golden Square1
German Hospital15Westminster Hospital1
Guy's Hospital5Westminster Workhouse1
Carried over93Total127