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REPORT,
FOR THE QUARTER ENDING THE 31 st MARCH, 1866.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
During the quarter ending on Saturday, March 31st,
there have been registered in the Whitechapel District 738 births and 673
deaths. Of the births, 365 were of males and 373 of females. Of the
deaths, there were 388 of males and 285 of females. In the corresponding
quarter of the previous year, the births were 758, and the deaths, including
126 which occurred in the London Hospital, were 741. The number of
births is less by 20, and the number of deaths by 68, than in the corresponding
quarter of 1865.
The deaths in.the London Hospital have been 123, of these 58 were of
non-residents, 10 of residents within the District, and 55 of persons who
died from the result of accident and from sudden death.
The greatest weekly mortality (75) occurred in the week ending on
the 10th March, and the smallest (35) in that terminating on the 6th
January.
The deaths from epidemic diseases have been 113, viz.: 15 from smallpox,
13 from measles, 14 from scarlet fever, 1 from diphtheria, 39 from
hooping-cough, 2 from diarrhoea, and 29 from fever.