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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Quarter ended 2nd July, 1881.
TO THE BOARD OP WORKS, WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 2nd July, 1881, the
total births in the District were 674, viz., 315 males and 359 females;
and the deaths 534, viz., 296 males and 238 females. The excess of
births over deaths has therefore been, during the Quarter, 140. As
the deaths of 101 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 433, and thus
increasing the number of births above deaths to 241. 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 676,
and the total deaths 472. The weekly average of births was 52.0, and
of deaths 36.3; and in the present Quarter the weekly average of
births has been 51.8 and of deaths 41.0
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 197 and the deaths
95; in the Mile End New Town 168 and the deaths 144 (in this subDistrict
the Workhouse is situated); in the Whitechapel North 109,
and the deaths 43; in the Whitechapel Church 72, and the deaths 168