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The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been 86 ;
viz.: 2 from small-pox, 22 from measles, 12 from scarlet-fever, 3 from diphtheria,
24 from hooping-cough, 14 from diarrhoea, and 9 from fever. Six
deaths of patients from this District occurred in the District Fever Hospital;
thus making a total of 15 deaths from fevor.
In the return of the Registrar-General, for the week ending November
20th, he remarks, "It is worthy of note that no death has been referred to
small-pox during the past four months in London, which has an estimated
population of 3,445,160, although the corrected average number of fatal cases
of this disease in the corresponding period of the last ten years is 337. This
oomplete immunity from fatal small-pox in London, for so long a period, is
without parallel since civil registration was established, and may be safely
assumed to be entirely unprecedented. During the eighteen weeks ending
last Saturday, 16 deaths in London resulted from varicella or chicken-pox."
The two deaths from small-pox, which are recorded as having occurred in
this District during this Quarter, may therefore be attributed to varicella or
chicken-pox. It would, however, be more satisfactory, if the deaths from
varicella were always recorded by the Registrar-General under that head.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year the deaths from
epidemic diseases were 88; viz.: 5 from measles, 59 from scarlet-fever, 3
from diphtheria, 1 from hooping-cough, 3 from diarrhoea, and 17 from fever.
In addition to the 17 deaths from fever, there were 5 deaths in the Fever
Hospital; thus making a total of 22 deaths from fever for that Quarter.
As I have not received the mortality returns from the local registrars
since October, 1874, I am unable to report, as formerly, 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 the sudden
deaths, nor the deaths from accidents. I am also unable to report the proportionate
number of deaths of males to females, nor to record the ages at
death.
Mortality of Young Children.
The mortality of children under 1 year of age was 131. This is
19.8 per cent. of the total mortality. In the corresponding Quarter of the
previous year the rate of mortality of children under 1, was 16.7 per cent.
of the total mortality. In the Spitalfields sub-District the rate is 33.6 per
cent.; in the Mile End New Town 20.5 per cent.; in the Whitechapel
North 28.3 per cent.; in the Whitechapel Church 4.0 per cent.; in the
Goodman's Fields 28.8 per cent.; and in the Aldgate 36.5 per cent. In the
Goodman's Fields sub-District the deaths under 1 year were 15, and the
total deaths 52 ; in the Whitechapel North sub-District the total deaths were
67, and those under 1 year were 19 ; while in the Whitechapel Church subDistrict
the deaths under 1 year were only 9, and the total deaths 223.