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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Quarter ended 27th September, 1879.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 27th September,
1879, the total births in the District were 658, viz.: 337 males and 321
females; and the deaths 532, viz.: 312 males and 220 females. The
excess of births over deaths has therefore been, during this Quarter, 126.
As the deaths of 93 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 439, and increasing the number of births
above deaths to 219. 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 644, and the total deaths 566.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 184, and the deaths
125; in the Mile End New Town 183, and the deaths 130; in the Whitechapel
North 98, and the deaths 51; in the Whitechapel Church 68, and
the deaths 149 fin this sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in
the Goodman's Fields 80, and the deaths 43; and in the Aldgate 45, and
the deaths 34. The deaths have exceeded the births in the Whitechapel
Church sub-District by 81, but the deaths of the 93 non-residents in the
London Hospital must be deducted from the deaths in that Institution; the
proportion of births to deaths is therefore 68 to 56.