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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
foe the
Quarter ending 2nd October, 1869.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended 2nd October, 619 births and
690 deaths were registered in the Whitechapel District; of the births there
were 307 of boys and 312 of girls. In the corresponding Quarter of the
previous year, the births were 583 and the deaths 638. In each of these
Quarterly returns, the deaths in the London Hospital are included. The
deaths in this Quarter have exceeded the births by 71, but deducting the
deaths of 75 non-residents the births have exceeded the deaths by 4.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 123, viz.: 79 males and
44 females. Of the total deaths in this Institution there were 14 of residents
within the District, 75 of non-residents, and 37 of persons who died from the
result of accident or from sudden death. The deaths from epidemic diseases
in the Hospital were 10; of these, 6 were from scarlet fever, 2 from typhoid
fever, and 2 from diarrhoea. The deaths from pyaemia were 4.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 63, viz.: 28 males and 35
females. The deaths from epidemic diseases in this establishment have been
4, all from diarrhcea. The ages at death of persons dying in the Workhouse
and in the London Hospital, and the mortality in these Institutions for the
corresponding Quarter of the previous year, are shown in Table 3 in the
Appendix.