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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Quarter ending 2nd Oct.., 1875.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
ln the quarter that ended on Saturday, the 2nd October, 1875,
the total births in the District were 635, and the deaths 568. The excess of
births over deaths has therefore been, during this quarter, 67. 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 163,
108 must be deducted for the deaths of non-residents, thereby reducing the
mortality of the District to 460, and increasing the number of births above
deaths to 175. In the corresponding quarter of the previous year the births
were 631, and the total deaths 645.
In the Spitalfields sub-district the births were 165, and the deaths 92 ;
in the Mile End New Town 162 and the deaths 132; in the "Whitechapel
Forth 96 and the deaths 46; in the Whitechapel Church 58 and 192 (in
this sub-district the London Hospital is situated); in the Goodman's
Fields 94 and 49 ; and in the Aldgate 60 and 57. The deaths have
exceeded the births in the Whitechapcl Church district by 134.