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from scarlet-fever or from small-pox of patients belonging to this District
in the hospitals under the management of the Metropolitan Asylums District
Board.
In the corresponding quarter of the previous year the deaths from epidemic
diseases were 56; viz., 21 from measles, 13 from scarlet-fever, 3 from
diphtheria, 9 from hooping-cough, 1 from diarrhœa, and 9 from fever.
As I have not received the mortality returns from the local registrars
since October, 1874, I am unable to report, as I have been hitherto accustomed
to do, the specific diseases which have proved fatal to the inhabitants
of this District. Neither am I able to specify the localities in which deaths
have occurred, nor to report the proportionate number of deaths of males to
females, nor to specify the ages at death.
The deaths occasioned by violence in this District were, according to
the Report of the Registrar General for the year 1874, 225. "The deaths in
London caused by horses and vehicles in the streets were 211—28 by horses
without carriages, 11 by carriages, 17 by omnibuses, 14 by tram cars, 33 by
cabs, 4 by drays, 36 by carts, and 63 by vans or waggons. The kind of
carriage producing 5 deaths was not described. 2805 cases of injury in the
streets are reported by the Police."
Mortality of Young Children.
The mortality of children under one year of age was 103. This is
15.0 per cent. of the total mortality. In the corresponding quarter of the
previous year the rate of mortality of children under 1 was 13.8 per
cent. of the total mortality. In the Spitalfields sub-district the rate is 23.4
per cent.; in the Mile End New Town 13.0 per cent.; in the Whitechapel
North, 27.2 per cent.; in the Whitechapel Church 4.7 per cent.; in the
Goodman's Fields 32.5 per cent.; and in the Aldgate 23.8 per cent. In
the Goodman's Fields sub-district, the deaths under 1 year were 14, and the
total deaths 43; while in the Whitechapel Church sub-district the deaths
under 1 year were only 11, and the total deaths 232. This difference is
explained by the deaths in the London Hospital, in which institution the
deaths of children under 1 year are very few.
Pauper Illness in the District.
The Medical Officers of the Union have attended, during the last quarter,
757 new cases of illness out of the Workhouse; including 7 of scarlet-fever,
6 of hooping cough, 9 of diarrhoea, 3 of fever, 39 of febricula, and 3 of
erysipelas. In the corresponding quarter of the previous year the number
of pauper cases of illness was 1062, including 39 of measles, 9 of scarlet
fever, 9 of hooping-cough, 13 of diarrhœa, 15 of fever, 48 of febricula,
and 5 of erysipelas. The total number of cases of illness in the Workhouse
has been 756, including 16 of diarrhoea, 19 of febricula, 2 of fever, and 13
of erysipelas.
Meteorology of Greenwich.
The returns of the Registrar-General show that the rain-fall in the
Metropolis during the quarter has been 3.83 inches. During the