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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Quarter ended 28th June, 1879.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 28th June,
1879, the total births in this District were 656, viz : 358 males and
298 females ; and the deaths 550, viz.: 293 males and 257 females.
The excess of births over deaths has therefore been, during this
Quarter, 106. As the deaths of 114 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 436,
and increasing the number of births above deaths to 220. 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
671, and the total deaths 622.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 201, and the deaths
88 ; in the Mile End New Town 162, and the deaths 169 ; in the
Whitechapel North 108, and the deaths 43; in the Whitechapel
Church 61, and the deaths 181 (in this sub-District the London
Hospital is situated) ; in the Goodman's Fields 78, and the deaths
38 ; and in the Aldgate 46, and the deaths 31. The deaths have
exceeded the births in the Whitechapel Church sub-District by 120,
but the deaths of the 114 non-residents must be deducted ; the proportion
of births to deaths is therefore 61 to 67. The deaths have
exceeded the births in the Mile End New Town sub-District, but in
this sub-District the Workhouse is situated.