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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Quarter ended lst January, 1881.
TO THE BOARD OF WORKS, WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT,
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 1st January, 1881, the
total births in the District were 621, viz., 316 males and 305 females;
and the deaths 502, viz., 274 males and 228 females. The excess of
births over deaths has therefore been, during the Quarter, 119. As
the deaths of 115 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 387, and thus increasing the
number of births above deaths to 234. 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 G55, and the total deaths
697. The weekly average of births was 50.3, and of deaths 53.6; and
in the present Quarter the weekly average of births has been 47.7
and of deaths 38.6.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 164, and the deaths
80; in the Mile End New Town 178, and the deaths 119 (in this subDistrict
the Workhouse is situated); in the Whitechapel North 103,
and the deaths 41; in the Whitechapel Church 64, and the deaths 199
(in this sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in the Goodman's
Fields 74, and the deaths 41; and in the Aldgate 38, and the
deaths 22. The deaths have exceeded the births in the Whitechapel
Church sub-District by 135, but the deaths of the 115 non-residents
in the London Hospital must be deducted from the total deaths in
that Institution ; the proportion of births to deaths is therefore 64
to 84.