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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Quarter ended 1st October, 1881.
TO THE BOARD OP WORKS, WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 1st October, 1881,
the total births in the District were 586, viz., 272 males and 314
females; and the deaths 601, viz., 344 males and 257 females. The
excess of deaths over births has therefore been, during the Quarter,
15. As the deaths of 102 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 499, and thus
increasing the number of births above deaths to 87. 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 590,
and the total deaths 556. The weekly average of births was 45.3,
and of deaths 2.7; and in the present Quarter the weekly average
of births has been 45.0, and of deaths 46.2.