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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
FOR THE
Quarter ending \st October, 1870.
To the Board of "Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, October 1st, 1870,
the births registered in the Whitechapel District were 631, viz., 321 males
and 310 females. During the same period, the deaths have been 609 : of
these, 342 have been of males and 267 of females. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year, the births were 619 and the deaths 690.
There has been, therefore, an increase of 12 in the number of births, and a
decrease of 81 in the number of deaths.
The mortality in this District during the Quarter has been at the rate
of 32 per 1000, while for the whole of London the rate of mortality has
been about 24 per 1000. This, however, refers to the rate of mortality for
the entire District; but if we were able to calculate the rate of mortality in
particular localities, where overcrowding, defective ventilation, and other
sanitary defects exist, the rate of mortality would be found to be greatly in
excess of 32 per 1000; but it is difficult to obtain accurate returns from these
bye places, inasmuch as the parties, when sick, go into the hospitals, or are
removed to the Workhouse, where, when they die, their deaths are recorded.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 159, viz., 112 males and
47 females. Of the total deaths in this institution, there were 15 of persons
resident within the District, 110 of non-residents, and 34 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 5 deaths from epidemic diseases in the London
Hospital, viz., 3 from diarrhoea, 1 from enteric fever, and 1 from diphtheria.
All of these deaths, with the exception of one from diarrhoea, were of nonresidents.
The deaths from pycemia were 3.