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NINTH ANNUAL REPORT,
For the Year ending 31st December, 1864
Gentlemen,
The total number of deaths registered in the Whitechapel
District during the quarter ending on Saturday, the 31st December, including
those in the London Hospital (110), were 654, of which 361 were of males and
293 of females The average number of deaths for this quarter during the
preceding eight years is 610 The excess of deaths, therefore, is 44 above
the average
The mortality during this quarter has been at the annual rate of 33 in
1,000, or 1 in 30 of the population In the more healthy districts in England,
the rate of mortality is only 15 in 1,000, or 1 in 66 of the population The
births have been 656, of which 330 were of males and 326 of females The
births have exceeded the deaths by 11 only; but if the deaths of the 52 nonresidents
are excluded, then the excess of births over deaths is 63 The
average number of deaths per week has been 503 Of the 110 deaths in the
London Hospital, 56 were of persons who died from the result of accident and
from sudden death (The residences of these are not given in the returns)
Of the remaining 54, 2 were of persons residing in the district, and 52 of nonresidents
The greatest weekly mortality (71) occurrcd in the week ending November
19th During this week, although the mean temperature was 28° above the
average, the variations in the temperature of the air had been very considerable
In October the mean temperature had been 51° In the first week in
November it fell to 424°; in the next week to 375°; and in the following
week it rose again to 455", when the total mortality in London was 1742,
which is 331 above "the average number of deaths for the fortysixth week
of ten years 185463,—the average number of deaths being, with a correction
for increase of population, 1,411"
The deaths from epidemic diseases have been 93, from puerperal fever 3,
from erysipelas 6 (of which 2 were of infants aged respectively 3 weeks and
14 days), from pysemia 1, from diseases of the respiratory organs 1 66, from
diseases of the heart 20, from tubercular diseases 97 ("of which 65 were from
consumption) Two persons, aged respectively 74 and 35, residents in Bethnal
Green, died in the London Hospital from urasmic poisoning, and 1 (a cab proprietor),
residing in Spitalfields, from acute farcy glanders The deaths
arising from accidents or negligence were 51, of which 14 were caused by burns
and scalds, 4 from suffocation (of which 1 was that of a man aged 61 who was
suffocated from a piece of beef lodging in the windpipe), 1 from a gunshot
wound, 1 from the bite of a dog, and 1 from drowning Two persons
destroyed themselves by hanging, whilst under temporary derangement