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62 of hooping-cough, 30G of diarrhoea, 125 of fever, and 1 of choleraicdiarrhœa.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year, the
number of cases of illness attended by the Medical Officers of the Union
was 4,054.
The out-door pauper cases of sickness in this District have increased from
11,392 in 1860 to 17,181 in 1867. It is a matter of surprise to me that
this fact has not seriously engaged the attention of the Guardians, for I
have, in each of my Quarterly Reports, published the number of sick
paupers. The returns of sickness are exclusive of the cases in the
Workhouse, which, in 1865, were 3,535. In my Quarterly Report
for July, 1858, I published a return of the pauper eases of illness in 19
Districts in London, from which it appears, that, with the exception of
the large Parish of Marylebone, the cases in the Whitechapel District
are not only relatively more numerous than any other Metropolitan
District, but are actually so. Thus, it is shown, that the Medical
Officers of Saint Pancras, with a population of about 195,000, had
attended, in 1857, 1,497 cases less in the year than had been attended
in the Whitechapel District, with a population of 78,000. The total
number of sick paupers in the Whitechapel District, including the cases
in the Workhouse, now exceeds 20,000 annually.
The returns of the Registrar General show that the rain-fall in the
metropolis during the Quarter has been only 4.22 inches. During the
corresponding Quarter of last year the rain-fall was 6.27 inches. The
mean temperature of the air was 55.1°. The hottest days during the
Quarter were Tuesday, May the 19th, Saturday, June 20th, and Saturday,
June 27th, when the thermometer in the shade indicated respectively
87.0°, 88.0°, and 88.6°.
The following Table, taken from the returns of the Registrar
General, shows the comparative residts during the Quarter:—