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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
for the
Quarter ending 28th September, 1872.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, September 28, 1872,
the births registered in the Whitechapel District were 640; viz., 325 males
and 315 females. During the same period the deaths have been 670: of
these, 397 have been of males and 273 of females. In the correspondingQuarter
of the previous year the births were 602 and the deaths 574.
There has been, therefore, an increase of 38 in the number of births, and an
increase of 96 in the number of deaths.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 168; viz., 121 males and
47 females. Of the total deaths in this institution there were 29 of persons
resident within the District, 100 of non-residents, and 39 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 record. There was one death of a non-resident from typhoid fever
in the London Hospital during this Quarter.
The mortality in the London Hospital, during the last three weeks, has
been unusually large; no less than 54 deaths having taken place therein in
that time; while the total deaths for the Whitechapel Church Sub-district, in
which the Hospital is situated, was, for the same period, 66. This is 81.8
per cent. of the total mortality of the Sub-district. The mortality in the
Hospital for the whole quarter was 77.8 per cent. of the total deaths in the
Sub-distriet; and in the corresponding quarter of the previous year it was
78.4 per cent. The population of the Sub-district is 7323.
On making inquiry of the House Governor and Secretary to the London
Hospital, relating to the cause of this large mortality, I have been favored
by that gentleman with the following remarks:—"The mortality is not due,
as you are well aware, to the prevalence of any epidemic in the district