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Excluding the deaths in the London Hospital, 1 in 6.5 of the total mortality of
this district has occurred in the "Workhouses during the last quarter.
In calculating the amount of mortality for the Whitechapel District, we must
exclude the deaths of the non-residents which occurred in the London Hospital (36),
and the deaths which occurred in that institution, and other parts of the district from
violence (42), from the total number of deaths. The mortality, therefore, for the
quarter ending March 28th, for the Whitechapel District, is 591, or about 45 per
week and not 669 as appears from the returns of the local registrars. As some of the
residents in the district die in other charitable institutions in London, they must of
course be added to the total, which will perhaps raise the mortality to an average of
46 per week.

In five of the cases under the columns of "Found Dead" and "Natural Death,''
the verdicts of the coroner's juries were, that the deaths were occasioned or accelerated
by want of nourishment and exposure to cold. One was that of a seaman, aged 18
years, whose death is thus registered, "Natural death, accelerated by exposure to
cold, on expulsion from his ship in a state of disease." Two of the cases occurred in
the London Hospital, two in the Mile End New Town District, and one in the
District of Goodman's Fields.