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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Quarter ended 27th December, 1879.
To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 27th December,
1879, the total births in the District were 655, viz.: 340 males and 315
females; and the deaths 697, viz.: 411 males and 286 females. The
excess of deaths over births has therefore been, during this Quarter, 42. It
is a very unusual occurrence for the deaths to exceed the births, but this is
not the only quarter in which I have had to record this event. As the
deaths of 119 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 578, and thus increasing the number of
births above deaths to 77. 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 638 and the total deaths 593.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 221 and the deaths
128; in the Mile End New Town 157 and the deaths 183 (in this subDistrict
the Workhouse is situated); in the Whitechapel North 103 and
the deaths 69; in the Whitechapel Church 69 and the deaths 235 (in this
sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in the Goodman's Fields 65
and the deaths 52; and in the Aldgate 40 and the deaths 30. The deaths
have exceeded the births in the Whitechapel Church sub-District by 166,
but the deaths of the 119 non-residents in the London Hospital must be
deducted from the deaths in that Institution; the proportion of births to
deaths is therefore 69 to 116.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 187; of these, 119
were of non-residents, 20 of residents, and 48 of persons who either
died suddenly or from the result of accident. The deaths of persons
who had resided in this District previous to their admission into the