View report page

4
London Hospital form but a very small proportion of the total deaths in
that Institution. Excluding the deaths caused by accident (the previous
residences of such persons not always being given in the weekly returns),
the proportion of deaths of residents is only 10.7 per cent. In the
corresponding Quarter of the previous year the deaths in that Institution
were 168.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 74. In the corresponding
Quarter of last year they were 97.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been
97, viz.; 26 from measles, 31 from scarlet-fever, 6 from diphtheria, 14
from hooping-cough, 13 from diarrhoea, and 7 from fever. One death from
small-pox occurred in the Small-pox Hospital belonging to the Asylums'
Board, and 7 deaths from fever of paupers who were removed from this
Union. The deaths from fever in this District have therefore been 14, thus
making the total deaths from epidemic diseases, including 1 from smallpox
as stated above, 105.
The residences of the paupers from this Union who died in the Fever
Hospital during this Quarter are as follows:—three from No. 5, Brick
Lane, one from No. 12, Fieldgate Street, two from No. 16, Buckle Street,
and one from No. 50, Goulston Street. The residence of the person who
died from small-pox was No. 85, Old Montague Street.
The number of patients suffering from fever who were removed from
this District was 37, including 2 from the Workhouse Infirmary, and 12
from the London Hospital, 10 of whom were from other districts.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year, the deaths from
epidemic diseases were 42, viz.: 13 from measles, 5 from scarlet-fever, 3
from diphtheria, 5 from hooping-cough, 5 from diarrhoea, and 11 from
fever. No death from epidemic disease occurred in the Asylum Hospitals
of any person belonging to this District.
Mortality of Young Children.
The mortality of children under 1 year of age was 125. This is 17.9
per cent, of the total mortality. In the corresponding Quarter of the
previous year it was 17.5 per cent. In the Spitalfields sub-District the
rate is 28.1 per cent.; in the Mile End New Town 19.1 per cent.; in the
Whitechapel North 30.4 per cent.; in the Whitechapel Church 7.2 per
cent.; in the Goodman's Fields 21.1 per cent.; and in the Aldgate 16.6
per cent. The difference in the rate of mortality of young children in the
Mile End New Town and Whitechapel Church sub-Districts is thus
explained:—in the former the Workhouse is situated and in the latter the