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REPORT
oF the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Quarter ending 31 st March, 1877.
To the Board of Works, Whitchappel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 31st March,
1877, the total births in the District were 767, viz.: 383 males and 384
females; and the deaths 662, viz.: 383 males and 279 females. The
excess of births over deaths has therefore been, during this Quarter, 105.
As the deaths of 148 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, thereby
reducing the total mortality to 514. An allowance, however, must be made
for the deaths of residents in public institutions outside the District, but
of those I have no return. In the corresponding Quarter of the previous
year the total births were 721 and the total deaths 653.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 214 and the deaths 121;
in the Mile End New Town 198, and the deaths 172; in the Whitechapel
North 108, and the deaths 56; in the Whitechapel Church 73 and 217 (in
this sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in the Goodman's Fields
106 and 45; and in the Aldgate 68 and 50. The deaths have exceeded the
births in the Whitechapel Church District by 134, but from this number the
148 non-residents must be deducted. The proportion of births to deaths
is therefore 73 to 69.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 180. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year the deaths in this Institution were 185.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 98. In the corresponding
Quarter of last year they were 104.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been 62,
viz.: 16 from small-pox, 11 from measles, 5 from scarlet-fever, 1 from diphtheria,
18 from hooping-cough, 5 from diarrhoea, and 6 from fever. Twelve
deaths of patients from this District occurred in the District Small Pox
Hospital, thus making a total of 28 deaths from small-pox.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year the deaths from
epidemic diseases were 59, viz; 6 from measles, 5 from scarlet-fever, 1
from diphtheria, 37 from hooping-cough, 3 from diarrhœa, and 7 from