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Whitechapel 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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SPECIAL RETURNS
Ordered by the Local Government Board.
AREA AND POPULATION
OF THE DISTRICT
TO WHICH THESE RETURNS RELATE:—
Area in Acres, 406 (Including 23 Acres of Water).
Population in 1891, 74,261.
„ 1896, 78,676.
Census of Public Institutions
On the Night of December 31st, 1897:-
The London Hospital—Patients 613
„ „ Officers 442
Total 1,055
The Whitechapel Union Infirmary—Patients 571
,, „ ,, Officers 58
Total 629