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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Quarter ending 30th December, 1876.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 30th Dec.,
1876, the total births in the District were 713, and the deaths 606. The
excess of births over deaths has therefore been, during this Quarter, 107.
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* per cent., exclusive of sudden deaths and those resulting
from accidents, of the total mortality in this Institution; and, as the total
deaths arc 211, 140 must be deducted for the deaths of non-residents,
thereby reducing the mortality of the District to 466, and increasing the
number of births above deaths to 247. In the corresponding Quarter of the
previous year the total births were 633, and the total deaths 659.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 218, and the deaths 108 ;
in the Mile End New Town 179, and the deaths 142; in the Whitechapel
North 101, and the deaths 39; in the Whitechapel Church 59 and 235 (in
this sub-District the London Hospital is situated): in the Goodman's Fields
96 and 36; and in the Aldgate 60 and 46. The deaths have exceeded the
births in the Whitechapel Church District by 176; but from this number
the deaths of 140 non-residents must be deducted.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 211. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year the deaths in this Institution were 187.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 81. In the corresponding
Quarter of last year they were 75.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been 38;
viz.: 8 from small-pox, 3 from measles, 4 from scarlet-fever, 1 from diphtheria,
2 from hooping-cough, 10 from diarrhoea, and 10 from fever. Six
deaths of patients from this District occurred in the District Small Pox
Hospital, and 1 in the Fever Hospital; thus making a total of 14 deaths
from small-pox and 11 from fever.
* By estimating the deaths of non-residents at 66 per cent. instead of at 88 per cent.,
which was the estimated rate for the previous Quarter, allowance is made for the deaths of
residents in public institutions outside the District,