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District, thereby increasing the total deaths from this disease from
2 to 11.
Mortality of Young Children.
The mortality of children under 1 year of age is 110. This is 20.6
per cent, of the total mortality. In the corresponding Quarter of
the previous year it was 21.4 per cent. In the Spitalfields subDistrict
the rate is 85.7 per cent.; in the Mile End New Town 19.4
percent.; in the Whitechapel North 18.6 per cent.; in the Whitechapel
Church 7.2 per cent.; in the Goodman's Fields 40.9 percent.;
and in the Aldgate 25.0 per cent. The difference of 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.
Rate of Mortality.
The rate of mortality in the entire District, for the year ended
2nd July, 1881, based on the population according to the present
census, and recorded in the weekly returns of the Registrar-General,
is, deducting as usual the deaths of the non-residents, 24.7 per 1000.
The population in 1871 was 76,573 and is now only 71,350.
The total deaths under 5 years, during the Quarter, are 215,
which shows a rate of mortality of 40.2 per cent, in relation to the
total deaths, including those of non-residents, and 31.8 per cent, to
the total births. The rate of mortality under 1 year, in relation to
the total births, is 16.3 per cent.
Pauper Illness in the District.
The Medical Officers of the Union have attended during the
past Quarter 1064 new cases of illness out of the Workhouse;
including 61 of small-pox, 46 of measles, 4 of scarlet-fever, 7 of