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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
fob the
Quarter ending 30th March, 1872.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, March 30, 1872,
the births registered in the Whitechapel District were 720; viz., 398 males
and 322 females. During the same period the deaths have been 608:* of
these, 351 have been of males and 257 of females. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year, the births were 747 and the deaths 665.
There has been, therefore, a decrease of 27 in the number of births, and a
decrease of 57 in the number of deaths.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 143; viz., 101 males and
42 females. Of the total deaths in this institution there were 24 of persons
resident within the District, 86 of non-residents, and 33 of persons who
died either suddenly or from the result of accident. 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 complete record. There was one death from typhoid fever in the
London Hospital during this Quarter. Two deaths occurred in this institution
from pyaemia.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 75; viz., 46 males and 29
females. No death from epidemic disease occurred in this establishment.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been 69;
viz., 11 from small-pox, 8 from measles, 2 from scarlet-fever, 1 from
diphtheria, 41 from hooping-cough, 1 from diarrhoea, and 5 from fever.
To the deaths from small-pox as above recorded there must be added the
5 deaths which occurred in the Small Pox Hospitals, thus making a total
of 16 deaths from small-pox. No death from fever occurred in the Fever
Hospitals. There were G deaths from erysipelas, 2 from puerperal fever,
2 from pyaemia, 4 from rheumatism, and 4 from croup.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year the deaths from
epidemic diseases were 130; viz., 83 from small-pox, from measles, 8
from scarlet-fever, 16 from hooping-cough, 8 from diarrhoea, and 11
from fever.
*In the Registrar General's Returns, 609 deaths are recorded. This discrepancy
is accounted for by there being a double return of an inquest in the Spitalfields SubDistrict,
No. 387.