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REPORT
FOR THE QUARTER ENDING 29th OF JUNE, 1867.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
During the quarter ending on Saturday, 29th June,
there were registered in the "Whitechapel District 669 Births, viz.: 333
males, and 336 females, and during the same period, the deaths registered
were 533; of these, there were 309 of males and 224 of females. In the
corresponding quarter of last year, the births were 630 and the deaths 681.
In each of these quarterly returns of deaths, those in the London Hospital
are included. On comparing the returns of births and deaths for the
Quarters ending in June 1866 and 1867, it will be observed that the
deaths in the former period exceeded the births by 51, while in the latter,
the births have exceeded the deaths by 136.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 104, viz.: 78 males
and 26 females. Of the total deaths, 7 were of residents within this district,
60 of non-residents, and 57 of persons who died from the result of
accident and from sudden death.
The deaths from Epidemic Diseases have been 76, viz. : 15 from
Small-pox, 8 from Measles, 8 from Scarlet-fever, 1 from Diphtheria, 22
from Hooping Cough, 5 from Diarrhœa, and 17 from Fever. This return
contrasts most favorably with that for the corresponding quarter of the
previous year, when the deaths from Epidemic Diseases were 105, the
same being 90 in excess of the present return. There has been, however,
a slight increase in the number of deaths from Small-pox, 15 against 12.
There must certainly be some defect either in the provisions of the Vaccination
Act, or in the mode of carrying them into effect, to account for the
large number of cases and deaths from Small pox in this district. The
total deaths from Zymotic Diseases have been 88, viz. : 76 from Epidemic
Diseases, 4 from Croup, 5 from Erysipelas, 1 from Eheumatic Fever, 1
from Puerperal Fever, and 1 from Carbuncle. No death from Cholera, or
from Pyaemia, has been recorded during this quarter. The public health
has been in a much more satisfactory state, both as regards the actual mortality,
and the deaths from Epidemic Diseases. But as 11* deaths from
* for the week ending 13th July 12 deaths from Cholera and Choleraic Diarrhoea were registered in London.