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REPORT,
FOR THE QUARTER ENDING THE 30th JUNE, 1866.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
The births registered in the Whitechapel District
during the quarter ending on Saturday, the 30th June, are 630, of these,
321 are boys and 309 girls. The deaths are 681: of these, 382 are of
males and 299 of females. In the corresponding quarter of the previous
year, the births were 645, and the deaths 592. The number of births,
therefore, during this quarter, are less by 15, and that of deaths, greater
by 89. In this quarter, the deaths have exceeded the births by 51. The
deaths in the London Hospital have been 98; of these, 49 were of nonresidents,
10 of persons who had resided in this district, and 39 of persons
who died from the result of accident and from sudden death.
The weekly mortality has varied from 63 to 40; the average number
of deaths per week having been 52.3. The deaths from Epidemic diseases
have been 165, while, for the corresponding quarter of last year, they were
only 99. The great increase in this class of diseases is shown under the