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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
FOR THE
Quarter ending lst January, 1370.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, January 1st, 1870,
the births registered in the Whitechapel District were 661, viz., 336 males
and 325 females. During the same period, the deaths have been 657: of
these 379 have been of males and 278 of females. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year, the births were 639 and the deaths 629.
There has been, therefore, an increase of 22 in the number of births, and an
increase of 28 in the number of deaths.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 126, viz., 81 males and
45 females. Of the total deaths in this institution, there were 16 of persona
resident within the District, 82 of non-residents, and 28 of persons who
died from the result of accident and from sudden death. 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 7 deaths from epidcmic diseases in the
London Hospital, viz., 1 from, typhus fever, 1 from typhoid fever, and 5 from
scarlet fever.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 75, viz., 41 males and 34
females. There was only 1 death from, epidemic disease in this establishment,
viz., diarrhœa.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been 139,
viz., 24 from measles, 62 from scarlet fever, 2 from diphtheria, 24 from
hooping cough, 5 from diarrhoea, 11 from fever, and 1 from cholera.
Diseases of the tubercular class have been fatal to 94 persons, viz.,
5 from scrofula, 25 from tabes mesenterica, 56 from consumption, and
8 from hydrocephalus. The proportion of deaths from this class of disease
to the total deaths is 14.3 per cent. The proportion of deaths from epidemic
diseases to the total deaths is 21.1 per cent.