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admission into the London Hospital, form but a very small proportion
of the total deaths in that Institution. Excluding the deaths
caused by accident (the previous residences of persons so dying not
always being given in the weekly returns), the proportion of deaths of
residents in this Quarter is 10.2 per cent. In the last Quarter, ended
1st October, the proportion of deaths of residents to non-residents
was 14.3 per cent.
The deaths in the Workhouse Infirmary, Baker's Row, have been
80. In the corresponding Quarter of last year they were 75.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have
been 61; viz., 3 from small-pox, to which must be added the 3 deaths
which occurred in the Small-pox Hospitals, thus making 6 deaths
from small-pox, 7 from measles, 8 from scarlet-fever, 5 from diphtheria,
23 from hooping-cough, 4 from diarrhoea, and 11 from fever.
Five deaths from fever occurred in the Fever Hospital of patients
removed from this District, thus making 16 deaths from fever and
increasing the deaths from epidemic diseases to 69.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year, the deaths
from epidemic diseases were 3.5, viz, 5 from small-pox (including 4
deaths which occurred in the Small-pox Hospital), 11 from measles,
6 from scarlet-fever, 5 from diphtheria, 1 from hooping-cough, 6 from
diarrhoea, and 8 from fever, including 3 deaths which occurred in the
Fever Hospital.
Mortality of Young Children.
The mortality of children under 1 year of age is 126. This is
21.8 per cent. of the total mortality. In the corresponding Quarter of
the previous year it was 15.7 per cent. In the Spitalfields sub-District
the rate is 34.2 per cent.; in the Mile End New Town 22,8 per
cent.; in the Whitechapel North 29.1 per cent.; in the Whitechapel
Church 7.7 per cent.; in the Goodman's Fields 27.0 per cent.; and
in the Aldgate 46.4 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.
The total deaths under 5 years, during the Quarter, are 217,
which shows a rate of mortality of 35.8 per cent. in relation to the
total deaths, including those of non-residents, and 35.4 per cent. to