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REPORT
Of THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
FOR THE
Quarter ending 28th June, 1873.
To the Board of Woeks, Whitechapel Distbict.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, June 28th, 1873,
the births registered in the Whitechapel District were 655 ; viz., 340 males
and 315 females. During the same period the deaths have been 538 : of
these, 316 have been of males and 222 of females. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year the births were 684 and the deaths 564.
The number of births is less by 29 than in the corresponding quarter of last
year, and a decrease of 26 has taken place in the number of deaths.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 144 ; viz., 102 males and
42 females. Of the total deaths in this institution there were 13 of persons
resident within the District, 95 of non-residents, and 36 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.
It is a matter for regret to all persons who are interested in estimatiug
the rate of mortality in small districts inhabited by the poorer classes, that
the records of the deaths which occur in the public institutions are not forwarded
to the sanitary authorities of the Districts from which the patients
had been removed. I obtain the addresses of all the patients who die in the
London Hospital, and, by the courtesy of Mr. Vallance, the Clerk to the
Board of Guardians, I receive a list of the deaths of those patients belonging
to this District, and of their addresses, before they were removed to the
Small Pox and Fever Hospitals; but, as a great many of the poor in this
District avail themselves of the advantages so freely offered by the several
great Hospitals in London, it is much to be desired that such arrangements
should be made with the several Hospital authorities as will enable the
Medical Officer of Health to record, with accuracy, the actual mortality of
his District.