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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF H E A L T II,
for the
Quarter ending 30th Sept., 1871.
To the Board op Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, September 30, 1871,
the births registered in the Whitechapel District were 602, viz., 304 males
and 298 females. During the same period, the deaths have been 574 : of
these, 312 have been of males and 262 of females. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year, the births were 631 and the deaths 609.
There has been, therefore, a decrease of 29 in the number of births, and a
decrease of 35 in the number of deaths.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 127, viz., 81 males and
46 females. Of the total deaths in this institution, there were 18 of persons
resident within the District, 80 of non-residents, and 29 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 2 deaths from epidemic diseases in the London
Hospital during this Quarter, viz., 1 from diarrhoea, and 1 from diphtheria.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 55, viz., 35 males and 20
females. There were 2 deaths from epidemic diseases in this establishment,
both of which were from diarrhoea.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been 142;
viz., 11 from small-pox, 12 from measles, 5 from scarlet-fever, 1 from
diphtheria, 4 from hooping-cough, 99 from diarrhoea, 7 from fever, and 3
from choleraic-diarrhœa.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year the deaths from
epidemic diseases were 133; viz., 6 from small-pox, 7 from measles, 13
from scarlet-fever, 1 from diphtheria, 12 from hooping-cough, 78 from
diarrhoea, 10 from fever, and 6 from choleraic-diarrhoea.
The deaths caused by diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive of
consumption, have been 48: of these, 23 were caused by bronchitis, 21
by pneumonia, 1 by laryngitis, and 3 by asthma.