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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Quarter ended 31st December, 1881.
TO THE BOARD OF WORKS, WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 31st December, 1881,
the total births in the District, were 612, viz, 310 males and 302
females; and the deaths 578, viz., 329 males and 249 females. The
excess of births over deaths has therefore been, during the Quarter,
34. As the deaths of 117 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 461, and thus
increasing the number of births above deaths to 151. 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 621,
and the total deaths 502. The weekly average of births was 47.7, and
of deaths 38.6; and in the present Quarter the weekly average of
births has been 47.0, and of deaths 44.4.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 171, and the
deaths 105; in the Mile End New Town 172, and the deaths 166 (in
this sub-District the Workhouse is situated); in the Whitechapel
North 79, and the deaths 48; in the Whitechapel Church 59, and the
deaths 194 (in this sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in
the Goodman's Fields 92, and the deaths 37; and in the Aldgate 39,
and the deaths 28. The deaths have exceeded the births in the
Whitechapel Church sub-District by 135, but the deaths of the 117
non-residents in the London Hospital must be deducted. The proportion
of births to deaths is therefore 59 to 77.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 166; of these, 117
were of non-residents in the District, 16 of residents, and 33 of
persons who either died suddenly or from the result of accident. The
deaths of persons who resided in this District, previous to their