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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
FOR the
Quarter ending 26th December, 1868.
To toe Board of "Works, "Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
la the Quarter that ended on Saturday, December, 1868,
the births registered in the Whitechapel District were 639, viz., 309 males
and 330 females. During the same period, the deaths have been 629. Of
these 350 have been of males and 279 of females. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year, the births were 643 and the deaths 599. There
has been therefore a diminution in the number of births by 4, and an increase
of 30 in the number of deaths.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 132, viz., 95 males and 37
females. Of the total deaths in this institution there were 13 of persons
resident within the district, 81 of non-residents, and 38 of persons who died
from the result of accident and from sudden death. The previous residences
of these 38 persons are not at all recorded. The total mortality of this
District is increased by the deaths of residents within the District which
have occurred in other hospitals in the Metropolis; but of these I have no
record. There were six deaths from epidemic diseases in the London
Hospital, viz., 4 from fever, 1 from measles, and 1 diphtheria.
The deaths in the "Workhouse have been 108, viz., 61 males and 47
females. The deaths from epidemic diseases in this establishment were 12,
viz., 7 from fever, 3 from measles and 2 from scarlet fever.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been 84,
viz., 1 from small-pox, 13 from measles, 19 from scarlet fever, 3 from diphtheria,
6 from hooping cough, 8 from diarrhcea, and 34 from fever. In London
during this quarter there were recorded 8 deaths from cholera and choleraic
diarrhoea. Diseases of the tubercular class have been fatal to 104 persons,
viz., 1 from scrofula, 28 from tabes mesenterica, 69 from consumption, 5
from hydrocephalus, and 1 from tubercular meningitis. The proportion of
deaths from this class of diseases to the total deaths is 16'5 per cent. The
proportion of deaths from epidemic diseases to the total deaths is 13 3 per
cent.
The deaths from diseases of the heart were 35, and from aneurism 3.