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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Quarter ending 30Ih June, 1877.
To the Board of "Works, Wihtechapel Distbict.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 30th June,
1877, the total births in the District were 691, viz.: 328 males and 363
females; and the deaths 652, viz.: 374 males and 278 females. The
excess of births over deaths has therefore been, during this Quarter, 39.
As the deaths of 129 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 523. 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 680 and the total deaths 527.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 214 and the deaths 126 ;
in the Mile End New Town 177 and the deaths 181; in the "Whitechapel
North 95, and the deaths 56; in the Whitechapel Church 55 and 196 (in
this sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in the Goodman's Fields
93 and 47; and in the Aldgate 57 and 46. The deaths have exceeded the
births in the Whitechapel Church District by 141, but from this number the
129 non-residents must be deducted. The proportion of births to deaths
is therefore 55 to 67.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 176. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year the deaths in this Institution
were 153.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 78. In the corresponding
Quarter of last year they were 91.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been 86,
viz.: 4 from small-pox, 44 from measles, 3 from scarlet-fever, 1 from
diphtheria, 15 from hooping-cough, 17 from diarrhœa, and 2 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 10 deaths
from small-pox, and 3 from fever.
"While small-pox has been less fatal in this District than in most of the
other Districts in London, measles has been unusually fatal, particularly in