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Mortality of Young Children.
The mortality of children under 1 year of age is 150. This is
24.9 per cent. of the total mortality. In the corresponding Quarter
of the previous year it was 24.8 per cent. In the Spitalfields subDistrict
the rate is 35.9 per cent.; in the Mile End New Town 22.8
percent.; in the Whitechapel North 32.5 per cent.; in the Whitechapel
Church 12.3 per cent.; in the Goodman's Fields 45.6 per cent.;
and in the Aldgate 30.0 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
1st October, 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, 27.0 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 257, which
shows a rate of mortality of 42.5 per cent. in relation to the total
deaths, including those of non-residents, and 43.8 per cent. to the
total births. The rate of mortality under 1 year, in relation to the
total births, is 25.4 per cent.
Pauper Illness in the District.
The Medical Officers of the Union have attended, during the
past Quarter 910 new cases of illness out of the Workhouse; including
21 of small-pox, 25 of measles, 7 of hooping-cough, 55 of diarrhoea,
32 of febricula, and 11 of erysipelas. In the corresponding Quarter
of the previous year, the number of pauper cases of illness was 821;
including 2 of small-pox, 5 of measles, 8 of scarlatina, 2 of hoopingcough,
78 of diarrhoea, 31 of febricula, 1 of fever, and 9 of erysipelas.
The total number of cases of illness in the Workhouse has been 7C8;
including 1 of small-pox, 7 of measles, 1 of hooping-cough, 23 of
diarrhoea, 2 of fever, 9 of erysipelas, and 10 of febricula. In addition
to the above cases, there were 33 of syphilis and gonorrhœa; thus
making a total of 801.