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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
foe the
Quarter ending 26th September, 1868.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, September
26th, there were registered in the Whitechapel District, 583 births, viz.:
275 males and 308 females. The deaths during the same period were
638; of these, there were 361 of males and 277 of females. In the
corresponding Quarter of last year, the births were 630, and the deaths
570. In each of these Quarterly Returns the deaths in the London Hospital
are included.
On comparing the returns of births and deaths for the Quarter
ending in September, 1867 and 1868, it will be observed that the deaths
in the latter period exceeded the births by 55, while, in the former, the
births exceeded the deaths by 60.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 137, which is 21.4
per cent. of the total mortality in the District; of these deaths, 96 were
of males and 41 of females. Of the deaths in this Institution, there
have been 16 of residents within the District, 77 of non-residents, and
44 of persons who died from the result of accident and from sudden
death.
Excluding the deaths in the London Hospital, the annual rate of
mortality has been 25 per 1000. It will be seen, on looking at the Table
containing the ages at death in the London Hospital, that 15 children,
under the age of 5 years, died in that Institution. The authorities of the
Hospital, within the last few years, having devoted some wards for the
reception of children suffering from severe disease, it may now be considered
a hospital for children as well as for adults. This extension of
its benefits calls upon the public for additional support.
The deaths from epidemic diseases have been 177, viz.: 2 from
small-pox, 13 from measles, 11 from scarlet-fever, 1 from diphtheria, 12
from hooping-cough, 101 from diarrhoea, 29 from fever, and 8 from
cholera and choleraic diarrhcea.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year, the deaths from
epidemic diseases were 138.
The rate of mortality from epidemic diseases, in relation to the total
mortality, has been 30.3 per cent.