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REPORT
FOR THE QUARTER ENDING 2 8th MARCH, 186 8.
To the Board of Works, Wlitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
During the thirteen weeks terminating 011 Saturday,
the 28th March, the official returns show that there were registered in
the Whitechapel District the deaths of 657 persons, of whom 380 were
males and 277 females. During the same period, the births have been
703, viz., 360 males and 343 females. In the corresponding quarter of
the previous year the births were 744 and the deaths 629.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 150, viz., 105 males
and 45 females. Of the total deaths, 13 were of residents within the
district, 86 of non-residents, and 51 of persons who died from the result
of accident and from sudden death. Five deaths from Pyæmia, 1 from
Diphtheria, and 1 from Fever, occurred in this Institution. The deaths in
the Workhouse have been 105, viz., 58 males, and 47 females. The deaths
from Epidemic Diseases in this establishment have been 5, viz., 1 from
Small-pox, 1 from Diarrhœa, and 3 from Fever.
The ages at death in the London Hospital and in the Workhouse, are
shown in Table 3 in the Appendix.
Epidemic Diseases have been fatal to 89, Small-pox occasioned 8
deaths, Measles 15, Scarlet-fever 9, Diphtheria 3, Hooping-cough 18,
Diarrhoea 7, and Fever 29.