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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
for the
Quarter ending April, 1871.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District,
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, April 1st, 1871,
the deaths registered in the Whitechapel District were 665, viz., 363 males
and 302 females, During the same period, the births have been 747: of
these, 382 have been of males and 365 of females. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year, the births were 725 and the deaths 616.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 143, viz., 100 males and
43 females. Of the total deaths in this institution, there were 22 of persons
resident within the District, 82 of non-residents, and 39 of persons who
died from the result of accident and from sudden death. Five deaths from
pyaemia, 1 from small-pox, and 1 from hooping-cough (a woman 31 years
of age) occurred in this institution.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 93, viz., 42 males and 51
females. There were 13 deaths from epidemic diseases in this establishment,
all of which were from small pox. Three deaths were caused by erysipelas.
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 130. Small-pox occasioned 83
deaths, measles 4, scarlet-fever 8, hooping-cough 16, diarrhcea 8, and fever
11.