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R E P O RT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
foe the
Quarter ending' 3rd July, 1863.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, July 3rd, the
births registered in the Whitechapel District were 609, viz.: 307 boys and
302 girls. During the same period, the deaths have been 607, viz.: 356
males and 251 females. In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year,
the births were 686 and the deat 595. There is, therefore, a diminution
in the number of births of 77, and an increase of 12 in the number of deaths.
The disproportion, as compared with other Districts, in the number of
births and deaths, during this and some previous Quarters, the births exceeding
the deaths by 2 only, and for the Quarter ending 3rd April, 1869, the
deaths exceeding the births by 39, calls for some attention. The deaths in
the "Whitechapel Church District, in which the London Hospital is situated,
always, as might be expected, exceeds the births, but why the deaths should
exceed the births in the Aldgate District it is not so easy to explain. I am
inclined to believe that all the births are not registered in this District, and
it may happen that the same neglect takes place in the other Districts. In
order to insure a more correct registration of births, it will be necessary to
make the registration of births, as in Scotland and Ireland, compulsory.