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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Quarter ended 29th December, 1877.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel Disteict.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 29th December,
1877, the total births in the District were 684, viz.: 363 males and 321
females; and the deaths 613, viz.: 348 males and 265 females. The
excess of births over deaths has therefore been, during this Quarter, 71.
As the deaths of 162 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 451, and increasing the number of births
above deaths to 233. 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 713, and the total deaths 606.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 205, and the deaths 94;
in the Mile End New Town 146, and the deaths 132; in the "Whitechapel
North 114, and the deaths 52; in the Whitechapel Church 62 and 236 (in
this sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in the Goodman's Fields
97 and 45; and in the Aldgate 60 and 54. The deaths have exceeded the
births in the Whitechapel Church District by 174, but from this number the
deaths of the 162 non-residents must be deducted. The proportion of births
to deaths is therefore 62 to 74.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 204. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year the deaths in this Institution
were 211.