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REPORT
OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, FOR THE
QUARTER ENDING 29th SEPTEMBER, 1866.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the quarter that ended on Saturday, September 29th,
the births registered in the Whitechapel District were 582, viz: 310 boys,
and 272 girls. The deaths during the same period were 1479; of these,
there were 774 of males and 705 of females. In the corresponding quarter
of last year, the total births were 632, and the deaths 579. The increase
in the mortality, therefore, during this quarter has been 900, or 39 per cent.
The increase in the number of deaths in the London Hospital over that of
the corresponding quarter of the previous year has been 309. The total
deaths in the London Hospital have been 393; of these, there have been
304 from cholera, of which 225 were of non-residents, and 79 of residents
within the district. In the temporary Cholera Hospital in Commercial
Street, there have been 87 deaths from the 20th of August to the 30th of
September; of these, 61 were of non-residents, and 26 of persons belonging
to this district.
The deaths from Epidemic diseases have been 1026, viz.: 8 from Small
Pox, 49 from Measles, 19 from Scarlet Fever, 1 from Diphtheria, 17 from
Hooping Cough, 98 from Diarrhœa, 25 from Fever, and 809 from Cholera.
The proportion of deaths from Epidemic diseases to the total deaths is 69
per cent.
It appears from the returns of the Registrar General, that the rain-fall
during this quarter has been 7.84 inches. During the corresponding quarter