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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
for the
Quarter ending 1st July, 1871.
To the Board Of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, July 1st, 1871,
the births registered in the Whitechapel District were 569, viz., 280 males
and 289 females. During the same period, the deaths have been 557: of
these, 313 have been of males and 244 of females. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year, the births were 664 and the deaths 585.
There has been, therefore, a decrease of 95 in the number of births, and a
decrease of 28 in the number of deaths.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 126, viz., 93 males and
33 females. Of the total deaths in this institution, there were 10 of persons
resident within the District, 82 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 no deaths from epidemic diseases in the London
Hospital during this Quarter.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 77, viz., 45 males and 32
females. There were 4 deaths from epidemic diseases in this establishment,
all of which were from small pox.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been 85;
viz., 42 from small-pox, 14 from measles, 1 from scarlet-fever, 11 from
hooping-cough, 8 from diarrhoea, and 9 from fever.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year the deaths from
epidemic diseases were 66; viz., 12 from measles, 6 from scarlet-fever, 1
from diphtheria, 20 from hooping-cough (of these, 1 was that of a man
43 years of age), 12 from diarrhoea, and 15 from fever.
The deaths caused by diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive of
consumption, have been 82: of these, 37 were caused by bronchitis, 34
by pneumonia, 1 by laryngismus, 1 by laryngitis, 2 by spasm of the glottis,
1 by pleuritis, and 6 by asthma.