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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
for the
Quarter ending 2nd April, 1870.
To the Board of "Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
During the thirteen weeks terminating on Saturday, the 2nd April,
the official returns show that there were registered in the "Whitechapel
District the deaths of 616 persons, of whom 349 were males and 267 females.
During the same period, the births have been 725, viz., 366 males and 359
females. In the corresponding quarter of the previous year (14 weeks), the
births were 682 and the deaths 721.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 128, viz., 88 males and
40 females. Of the total deaths 9 were of residents within the District, 87
of non-residents, and 32 of persons who died from the result of accident and
from sudden death. Five deaths from pyaemia, 1 from diphtheria, 1 from
scarlet-fever, and 1 from diarrhoea, occurred in this Institution. The deaths
in the Workhouse have been 115, viz., 72 males and 43 females. The
deaths from epidemic diseases in this Establishment have been 7, viz., 4 from
measles, 2 from diarrhoea, and 1 from fever.
The ages at death in the London Hospital and in the "Workhouse are
shown in Table III. of the Appendix.
Epidemic diseases have been fatal to 43. Measles occasioned 12 deaths,
scarlet-fever 8, diphtheria 2, hooping-cough 8, diarrhoea 5, and fever 8.