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REPORT
FOR THE QUARTER TERMINATING 28th MARCH, 1863.
Gentlemen,
The total mortality in the Whitechapel District, for the
quarter ending on the 28th March, 1863, is 761. In the corresponding quarter
of last year the total deaths were 640; there is an excess therefore of 121, or an
average of 9.3 deaths per week in this quarter above that in the corresponding
quarter of last year, and 8.5 deaths per week above the average number in the corresponding
quarters of the preceding seven years. This excessive mortality
appears to be owing principally to the large number of deaths from epidemic
diseases, 182 having died from these causes, while 108 died in the corresponding
quarter of 1862.
Of the 761 deaths 424 were of males and 337 of females. The total births
registered were 723, of which 358 were of males and 365 of females. Thus the
births of females are in excess of those of males, which is unusual, the normal
proportion of male to female births being as 106 to 100.
The deaths during this quarter have exceeded the births by 38, but if we
exclude the 45 non-residents who died in the London Hospital then the
excess of births over deaths is 7. If we wish to compare the proportionate
rate of mortality in this district with that in others we must exclude from the
calculation all the deaths in the London Hospital, as patients from all parts of
London and from the country are admitted into this institution. The deaths
in the London Hospital during this quarter were 100. The 761 deaths, less
the 100 which occurred in the London Hospital, are during this quarter at
the rate of 34 per 1000 annually of the entire population. The proportion of
deaths of children under five years to the total deaths is 40 per cent. In the
Whitechapel North Sub-District, where the greatest proportionate mortality
of children to the total mortality is usually found, when reckoned separately,
the proportion is as high as 62.1 per cent.