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In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year the deaths from
epidemic diseases were 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. In addition to the 9 deaths from fever, there were 6
deaths in the Fever Hospital; thus making a total of 15 deaths from fever
for that Quarter.
As I now receive the mortality returns regularly from the Local
Registrars, I hope to be able to resume my Quarterly Reports in the form I
adopted before 1874.
Mortality of Young Children.
The mortality of children under 1 year of age was 123. This is 20.2
per cent. of the total mortality. In the corresponding Quarter of the previous
year the rate of mortality of children under 1, was 19.8 per cent. of the
total mortality. In the Spitalfields sub-District the rate is 37.0 per cent.;
in the Mile End New Town 20.4 per cent.; in the Whitechapel North 25.6
per cent.; in the "Whitechapel Church 7.2 per cent.; in the Goodman's
Fields 44.4 per cent.; and in the Aldgate 23.9 per cent. In the Goodman's
Fields sub-District the deaths under 1 year were 16, and the total deaths 36 ;
in the Whitechapel North sub-District the total deaths were 39, and those
under 1 year were 10; while in the Whitechapel Church sub-District the deaths
under 1 year were only 17, and the total deaths 235. This difference is
explained by the deaths in the London Hospital, in which Institution the
deaths of children under 1 year are very few.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year the rate of mortality
of children under 1 year in the Spitalfields sub-District was 33.6 per cent.;
in the Mile End New Town it was 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.
Pauper Illness in the Disteict.
The Medical Officers of the Union have attended, during the past
Quarter, 512 new cases of illness out of the Workhouse; including 19 of
small-pox, 3 of measles, 2 of scarlet-fever, 23 of diarrhœa, 3 of fever, 29 of
febricula, and 2 of erysipelas. In the corresponding Quarter of the previous
year the number of pauper cases of illness was 588; including 8 of measles,
1 of scarlet-fever, 2 of hooping-cough, 15 of diarrhœa, 11 of fever, 27 of
febricula, and 4 of erysipelas. The total number of cases of illness in the
Workhouse has been 676; including 49 of small-pox, 1 of scarlet-fever, 10
of diarrhoea, 13 of febricula, 1 of fever, 4 of erysipelas, and 49 of syphilis.
I may here observe that the 19 cases of small-pox which are recorded in
the books of the Medical Officers of the Union give only a portion of the
cases which have occurred in the District; for the sanitary officers have
received information of 17 cases which were attended by private medical
practitioners. All the rooms in which patients have suffered from small-pox