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District the rate is 30.4 per cent.; in the Mile End New Town 12.3
per cent.; in the Whitechapel North 25.3 per cent.; in the Whitechapel
Church 6.4 per cent.; in the Goodman's Fields 26.4 per cent.;
and in the Aldgate 25.5 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 London Hospital; in both
these Institutions the children under 1 year bear only a small proportion
to the adults.
The total deaths under 5 years are 252; which shows a rate of
mortality of 32.6 per cent. in relation to the total deaths, including
those of non-residents, and 29.6 per cent, to the total births. The
rate of mortality under 1 year, in relation to the total births, is 15.0
per cent.
Pauper Illness in the District.
The Medical Officers of the Union have attended, during the past
Quarter, 1175 new cases of illness out of the Workhouse; including
6 of small-pox, 14 of measles, 4 of scarlet-fever, 5 of hooping-cough,
9 of diarrhoea, 28 of febricula, 1 of fever, and 4 of erysipelas. In the
corresponding Quarter of the previous year the number of pauper
cases of illness was 957; including 2 of measles, 5 of scarlatina, 10 of
hooping-cough, 7 of diarrhoea, 12 of febricula, 1 of fever, and 4 of
erysipelas. The total number of cases of illness in the Workhouse
has been 995 ; including 10 of measles, 14 of diarrhoea, 9 of erysipelas,
and 9 of febricula. In addition to the above cases there were 59 of
syphilis ; thus making a total of 1054.
During this Quarter, from the return of Mr. Ilott, the resident
Medical Officer of the Workhouse, it appears that no case of fever
was admitted into the Infirmary.
Uncertified Deaths.
The uncertified deaths recorded during the Quarter were 5, viz.:
3 in the Spitalfields sub-District, 1 in the Mile End New Town subDistrict,
and 1 in the Goodman's Fields sub-District.
Hooping Cough.
The deaths from hooping cough having been greatly in excess of
the usual number during this Quarter, I have deemed it advisable to
direct your attention to the subject.
Although the deaths from hooping-cough are not very much in
excess of the usual number in this District during the Quarter, yet,