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fever. In addition to the 7 deaths from fever there were 4 deaths in the
Fever Hospital; thus making a total of 11 deaths from fever for that
Quarter.
Mortality of Young Children.
The mortality of children under 1 year of age was 115. This is 17.3
per cent, of the total mortality. In the corresponding Quarter of the previous
year the rate of mortality of children under 1 year was 15.6 per cent. of the
total mortality. In the Spitalfields sub-District the rate is 28.9 per cent.;
in the Mile End New Town 14.5 per cent.; in the Whitechapel North 39.2
per cent.; in the Whitechapel Church 3.6 per cent.; in the Goodman's
Fields 31.1 per cent.; and in the Aldgate 22.0 per cent. The difference
in the rate of mortality of young children in the Mile End New Town and
Whitechapel Church District is thus explained:—in the former the Workhouse
is situated, and in the latter the London Hospital.
The total deaths under 5 years are 214; which shows a rate of mortality
of 32.3 per cent. in relation to the total deaths, and 27.8 per cent, to the
total births. The rate of mortality under 1 year, in relation to the total
births, is 13.6 per cent.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year the rate of mortality
of children under 1 year in the Spitalfields sub-District was 27.5 per cent.;
in the Mile End New Town it was 17.2 per cent.; in the Whitechapel
North 27.1 per cent.; in the Whitechapel Church 3.4 per cent.; in the
Goodman's Fields 28.5 per cent.; and in the Aldgate 14.2 per cent.
Pauper Illness in the District.
The Medical Officers of the Union have attended, during the past
Quarter, 637 new cases of illness out of the Workhouse; including 69 of
small-pox, 17 of measles, 9 of hooping-cough, 11 of diarrhoea, 22 of febricula,
and 1 of erysipelas. In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year the
number of pauper cases of illness was 753; including 14 of measles, 12 of
hooping cough, 3 of diarrhoea, 21 of fever 25 of febricula, and 3 of
erysipelas. The total number of cases of illness in the Workhouse has
been 830; including 49 of small-pox, 2 of measles, 3 of hooping-cough,
10 of diarrhœa, 14 of febricula, 5 of fever, 5 of erysipelas, and 37 of
syphilis.
I may here observe that the 69 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 10 cases which were attended by private medical
practitioners; and it appears from the returns which have been kindly sent
to me by Mr. Vallance that 96 patients were removed to the Metropolitan
Small Pox Hospital during this Quarter from the District, of which
number 12 died. Eight patients suffering from fever were sent to th