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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
for the
Quarter ending 2nd July, 1870.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, July 2nd, 1870,
the births registered in the Whitechapel District were 664, viz., 341 males
and 323 females. During the same period, the deaths have been 585: of
these, 336 have been of males and 249 of females. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year, the births were 609 and the deaths 607.
There has been, therefore, an increase of 55 in the number of births, and a
decrease of 22 in the number of deaths.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 157, viz., 108 males and
49 females. Of the total deaths in this institution, there were 21 of persons
resident within the District, 81 of non-residents, and 55 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 those I
have no record. There were 3 deaths from epidemic diseases in the London
Hospital, viz., 1 from diarrhoea, 1 from typhoid fever, and 1 from scarletfever.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 85, viz., 50 males and 35
females. There was only 1 death from epidemic disease in this establishment,
viz., measles.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire district have been 66,
viz., 12 from measles, 6 from scarlet fever, 1 from diphtheria, 20 from
hooping-cough, 12 from diarrhoea, and 15 from fever,