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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Quarter ending 3rd July, 1875.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the quarter that ended on Saturday, the 3rd July, 1875,
the total births in the District were 669, and the deaths 558. The excess of
births oyer deaths has therefore been, during this quarter, 111. As the
deaths of the non-residents, which occurred in the London Hospital are
included in the mortality returns, a deduction of such deaths must be made
in order to estimate the correct mortality of the District. These deaths are
on an average 66 percent., exclusive of sudden deaths and deaths from accidents,
of the total mortality in this institution; and as the total deaths are 166,
109 must be deducted for the deaths of non-residents, thereby reducing the
mortality of the District to 449, and increasing the number of births above
deaths to 220.
In the Spitalflelds sub-district the births were 212, and the deaths 88;
in the Mile End New Town 153 and 154; in the Whitechapel North 102
and 39; in the Whitechapel Church 76 and 191 (in this sub-district the
London Hospital is situated); in the Goodman's Fields 84 and 48; and
in the Aldgate 42 and 38. The deaths have exceeded the births in the
Whitechapel Church, and in the Mile End New Town districts; in the
former by 115, and in the latter by 1. In the corresponding quarter of
the previous year the births were 727, and the total deaths 594.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 166. In the corresponding
quarter of the previous year the deaths in this Institution were
159.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 88. In the corresponding
quarter of last year they were 104.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been 67 ;
viz., 1 from small-pox, 7 from measles, 9 from scarlet fever, 5 from diphtheria,
19 from hooping cough, 16 from diarrhoea, and 10 from fever. One
death of a patient from this District occurred in the District Fever
Hospital; thus making a total of 11 deaths from fever.