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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Quarter ending 3rd April, 1875.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the quarter that ended on Saturday, the 3rd April, 1875,
the total births in the District were 703, and the deaths 685. The excess of
births over deaths has therefore been, during this quarter, 18; but if we
deduct the deaths of the non-residents, which occurred in the London Hospital,
the births have exceeded the deaths by about 142. The returns of
deaths in the London Hospital not having been sent to mo this quarter, I am
obliged to make an approximation of the number of deaths of non-residents,
which in the corresponding quarter of last year was in the proportion to the
total deaths in that Institution of nearly 65 per cent. Out of the total
deaths, therefore, in this District during the quarter, there must be deducted
about 124 for the deaths of non-residents. The figures will therefore be as
follows : births 703, deaths 561.
Since my last report the sub-districts of Artillery and Spitalfields have
been united, and now form the sub-district of Spitalfields. In the Spitalfields
sub-district the births were 173, and the deaths 111; in the Mile End
New Town 200 and 192; in the Whitechapel North 89 and 44; in the
Whitechapel Church 82 and 232 (in this sub-district the London Hospital is
situated); in the Goodman's Fields 105 and 43; and in the Aldgate 54
and 63. The deaths have exceeded the births in the Whitechapel Church
and in the Aldgate sub-districts. In the corresponding quarter of the previous
year the births were 635, and the deaths 643.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 194. In the corresponding
quarter of the previous year the deaths in this Institution were
164.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 126, and in the corresponding
quarter of last year they were 113.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been 28;
viz., 1 from small-pox, 1 from measles, 8 from scarlet fever, 4 from diphtheria,
3 from hooping cough, 6 from diarrhœa, and 5 from fever. Two
deaths of patients from this District occurred in the Asylums District Fever
Hospital; thus making a total of 7 deaths from fever. There were no deaths