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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Quarter ended 1st July, 1882.
TO THE BOARD OP WORKS, WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 1st July,
1882, the total births in the District were 696, viz., 357 males and
339 females; and the deaths 520, viz., 281 males and 239 females.
The excess of births over deaths has therefore been, during the.
Quarter, 176. As the deaths of 123 non-residents, which occurred
in the London Hospital, are included in the mortality returns, a de.
duction of such deaths must be made in order to estimate the correct
mortality of the District, thereby reducing the total mortality to 397,
and thus increasing the number of births above deaths to 299. 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 674 and the total deaths 534. The weekly average of births
was 51.8 and of deaths 41.0; and in the present Quarter the weekly
average of births has been 53.5 and of deaths 40.0.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 230, and the
deaths 82; in the Mile End New Town 168 and the deaths 133 (in
this sub-District the Workhouse is situated); in the Whitechapel
North 68, and the deaths 39; in the Whitechapel Church 69, and the
deaths 202 (in this sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in
the Goodman's Fields 108, and the deaths 33; and in the Aldgate 53,