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REPORT,
FOR THE QUARTER ENDING THE 30th MARCH, 1867.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the thirteen weeks ending on Saturday, 30th March, there
were registered in the Whitechapel District, 744 births, viz.; 397 of hoys and 347 of
girls. The deaths registered during the same period were 629, of these there were 321
of males and 308 of females. In the corresponding quarter of the previous year, the
births were 738, and the deaths, including those which occurred in the London
Hospital, were 673. The number of births, therefore, is greater by 6, and that of
deaths is less by 44, than in the corresponding quarter of 1866. During this quarter,
the births have exceeded the deaths (deducting those of non-residents), by 166.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 98 : of these, 51 were of nonresidents,
13 of residents within the district, and 34 of persons who died from
the result of accident and from sudden death.
The greatest weekly mortality (75), occurred in the week ending 26th January,
and the smallest (37) in that terminating on the 16th February.
The deaths from Epidemic Diseases have been 63, viz. : 16 from Small-pox, 3 from
Measles, 5 from Scarlet-fever, 1 from Diphtheria, 22 from Hooping-cough, 8 from
Diarrhoea, and 8 from Fever. To this return, however, must be added the 9 deaths in
the Fever and Small-pox Hospitals, of persons belonging to this district, who died in
these institutions. Of these deaths, 6 occurred in the Fever Hospital and 3 in the
Small-pox Hospital.
In the corresponding quarter of last year, the deaths from Epidemic Diseases were
113, viz.: 15 from Small-pox, 13 from Measles, 14 from Scarlet-fever, 1 from Diphthiria,
39 from Hooping-cough, 2 from Diarrhœa, and 29 from Fever.