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REPORT,
FOE THE QUARTER ENDING
2nd APRIL, 1864.
Gentlemen,
In the course of the Quarter, ending 2nd April, there were registered
in the Whitechapel District 770 births, of which 400 were of males, and 370 of females.
The deaths during the same period were 767, of these 424 were of males, and 343 of females.
By deducting the deaths of the non-residents (54) the mortality is reduced to 723, and by
deducting the total deaths in the London Hospital (117), the mortality is still further
reduced to 650. Of the deaths in the London Hospital 50 were the result of accident and of
sudden death of persons whose, residences are not given in the returns. Of the remaining 67,
there were 13 of persons residing within the District, and 54 non-residents.
During the corresponding quarter of last year, the births were 723, and the deaths 761,
including 45 of non-residents. The deaths from Epidemic diseases aro 101, which is 13.1
per cent, of the total deaths, whereas, in the corresponding quarter of last year, they were
183, or 24 per cent. If, however, we deduct the total deaths in the London Hospital from
the total mortality of the District which occurred in each of the above-named quarters,
(for in the London Hospital not a single death from Epidemic disease occurred during the
course of either of them,) the proportion of deaths from Epidemic diseases is increased
respectively from 13.1 yer cent, to 15.5 per cent., and from 24 per cent, to 28.1 per cent.
The proportion of deaths from Epidemic diseases to the total deaths, during the year ending
Christmas, 1863, was as high as 25.6 per cent., the total deaths being 2,764, and the deaths
from Epidemic diseases, 709. Three deaths from this class of diseases occurred in the
London Hospital during the year. If, therefore, we deduct from the total mortality the
total deaths in the London Hospital (4.18), and deduct also the three deaths which occurred in
that Institution from Epidemic diseases from the total number of such deaths (709), the proportion
of deaths from Epidemic diseases is 30 per cent, of the deaths in the District for the
year 1863.