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REPORT
01' the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Quarter ended 28th Dec., 1878.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 28th Dec.,
1878, the total births in the District were 638, viz.: 316 males and 322
females; and the deaths 593, viz.: 332 males and 261 females. The
excess of births over deaths has therefore been, during this Quarter, 45.
As the deaths of 112 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 481, and increasing the number of births
above deaths to 157. 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 684, and the total deaths 613.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 180, and the deaths 107;
in the Mile End New Town 166, and the deaths 163; in the "Whitechapel
North 97, and the deaths 48; in the Whitechapel Church 65 and the deaths
208 (in this sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in the Goodman's
Fields 83 and the deaths 40; and in the Aldgate 47 and the deaths 27.
The deaths have exceeded the births in the Whitechapel Church District by
143, but from this number the deaths of the 112 non-residents must be
deducted ; the proportion of births to deaths is therefore 65 to 96.