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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Quarter ended 2nd April, 1881.
TO THE BOARD OF WORKS, WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 2nd April, 1881, the
total births in the District were 694, viz., 361 males and 333 females;
and the deaths 638, viz., 378 males and 260 females. The excess of
births over deaths has therefore been, during the Quarter, 56. As
the deaths of 126 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 512, and thus increasing the
number of births above deaths to 182. 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 846, and the total deaths
772. The weekly average of births was 60.0, and of deaths 55.1; and
in the present Quarter the weekly average of births has been 53.3
and of deaths 49.0.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 195, and the deaths
106 ; in the Mile End New Town 182, and the deaths 188 (in this subDistrict
the Workhouse is situated); in the Whitechapel North 105,
and the deaths 50 ; in the Whitechapel Church 58, and the deaths 223
(in this sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in the Goodman's
Fields 107, and the deaths 44 ; and in the Aldgate 47, and the
deaths 27. The deaths have exceeded the births in the Whitechapel
Church sub-District by 165, but the deaths of the 126 non-residents
in the London Hospital must be deducted from the total deaths in
that Institution ; the proportion of births to deaths is therefore 58
to 97.