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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
for the
Quarter ending, 4/A April, 1874,
To the Board of Works, WhiteCHapel District,
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, April 4th, 1874,
the births registered in the Whitechapel District were G35 ; viz., 347 males
and 288 females. During the same period the deaths have been 643 : of
these, 372 have been of males, and 271 of females. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year the births were 720, and the deaths 628.
There has been, therefore, a decrease of 85 in the number of births, and
an increase of 15 in the number of deaths. During the last two Quarters
the deaths have exceeded the births.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 164 ; viz., 108 males
and 56 females. Of the total deaths in this institution there were 17 of
persons resident within the District, 106 non-residents, and 41 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 were two deaths from Typhoid fever in the
London Hospital during this Quarter both of non-residents.
Four deaths from Pyaemia, and 2 from Erysipelas occurred in this
institution during this Quarter.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 113; viz., 63 males and 50
females.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been
56; viz., 21 from measles, 13 from scarlet-fever, 3 from diphtheria, 9 from
hooping-cough, 1 from diarrhoea, and 9 from fever. Three deaths of
patients from this District occurred in the Fever Hospital ; thus making a
total of 12 deaths from fever; but from these there must be deducted 2
deaths of non-residents which occurred in the London Hospital, thus
reducing the total number of deaths from fever to 10. There were 5
deaths from erysipelas, one of which occurred in a child 13 days old, after
the operation of circumcision, 12 from croup, 3 from puerperal fever, 5
from pyaemia, 1 from ague, 1 from cynanche tonsillaris, and 1 from mumps.
The deaths caused by diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive of
consumption, have been 139; of these, 81 were caused by bronchitis, 53 by
pneumonia, 4 by asthma, and 1 by oedema of the glottis.