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REPORT
of THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Quarter ended 29th June, 1878.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 29th June,
1878, the total births in the District were 671, viz.: 327 males and 344
females; and the deaths 622, viz.: 353 males and 269 females. The
excess of births over deaths has therefore been, during this Quarter, 49.
As the deaths of 120 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 502, and increasing the number of births
above deaths to 169. 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 691, and the total deaths 655.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 195, and the deaths 94;
in the Mile End New Town 170, and the deaths 183; in the Whitechapel
North 124, and the deaths 52; in the Whitechapel Church 59 and 206 (in
this sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in the Goodman's Fields
83 and 52; and in the Aldgate 40 and 35. The deaths have exceeded the
births in the Whitechapel Church District by 147, but from this number the
deaths of the 120 non-residents must be deducted. The proportion of births
to deaths is therefore 59 to 86.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 177. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year the deaths in this Institution
were 176.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 100. In the corresponding
Quarter of last year they were 78.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been 50 ;
viz.: 3 from small-pox (to which must be added 4 which occurred in the
hospital), 5 from measles, 4 from scarlet-fever, 1 from diphtheria, 24 from
booping-cough, 8 from diarrhoea, and 5 from fever (to which must be added