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QUARTERLY REPORT,
Ending 39th September, 1860.
Gentlemen,
In presenting my Report for the Quarter terminating on Saturday,
the 29th September, 1860, I have the satisfaction to state that the sanitary condition of the
Whitechapel District is comparatively good, whether it be judged of by the mortality returns,
or by the cases of sickness which have been attended by the Medical Officers of the Union.
The average number of deaths in July, August and September, in the four preceding years is
558, while the deaths during the same months of this year are only 515, viz. 295 males, and 220
females, including the deaths of 30 non-residents. In the corresponding quarter of the previous
year, the mortality was 624, or 109 above that in the period now under consideration. The
births in the quarter are 645, viz, 338 males, and 307 females; the number in the corresponding
quarter of 1859 was nearly the same, viz. 648. The weekly average of births is 49.7, and o
deaths 39.8; but if we deduct the deaths of the non-residents, the weekly average is only 37.3.
How far this diminished rateof mortality may be accounted for by the meteorological conditions of
the atmosphere, I cannot determine; but, in concurrence with this comparatively low rate of mortality,
the mean temperature of the air, according to the returns made to the Registrar General
by the Astronomer Royal, was only 56.8 degrees, which is 5 degrees less than the average of
the four corresponding quarters 1856-9, and 6 degrees less than it was during the same period of