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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
for the
Quarter ending 28th September, 1867.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, September 28th,
there were registered in the Whitechapel Bistrict 630 births, viz., 321 males
and 309 females. The deaths during the same period were 570; of these
there were 338 of males and 232 of females. In the corresponding Quarter
of last year, the births were 582 and the deaths 1479.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 117, viz., 80 males and
37 females. Of the deaths in this Institution, there have been 18 of residents,
63 of non-residents, and 36 of persons who died from the result of
accident and from sudden death.
Epidemic diseases have been fatal to 138, which is nearly one-fourth
of the total mortality. There have been 4 deaths from small-pox, 8 from
measles, 3 from scarlet fever, 1 from diphtheria, 14 from hooping cough, 77
from diarrhoea, 22 from fever, 4 from cholera, and 5 from choleraic diarrhoea.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year, the deaths from
epidemic diseases were 1026, including 809 from cholera and 98 from
diarrhoea.
The deaths caused by diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive of
consumption, are 56; of these, 21 are attributed to bronchitis, 28 to pneumonia,
2 to laryngitis, and 5 to other diseases of the lungs.
The tubercular class of diseases proved fatal to 116; of these 56 died
from consumption, 50 from mesenteric disease, 9 from hydrocephalus and 1
from scrofula.
The deaths from violence were 32; from burns and scalds 6 ; from
poison (viz., raw spirits in great excess) 1; from suffocation in bed (infants) 2 ;
from drowning 4 ; and from wounds self inflicted 2.