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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Quarter ended Ist April, 1882.
TO THE BOARD OF WORKS, WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 1st April,
1882, the total births in the District, were 644, viz., 321 males and
323 females; and the deaths 656, viz,, 347 males and 309 females.
The excess of deaths over births has therefore been, during the
Quarter, 12. As the deaths of 129 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 527,
and thus increasing the number of births above deaths to 117. 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 694, and the total deaths 638. The weekly average of births
was 53.3, and of deaths 49.0; and in the present Quarter the weekly
average of births has been 49.5 and of deaths 50.4.
In the Spitalfields sub-District, the births were 200, and the
deaths 114; in the Mile End New Town 168 and the deaths 178 (in
this sub-District the Workhouse is situated); in the Whitechapel
North 83, and the deaths 61; in the Whitechapel Church 68, and the
deaths 223 (in this sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in
the Goodman's Fields 81, and the deaths 51; and in the Aldgate 44,
and the deaths 29. The deaths have exceeded the births in the
Whitechapel Church sub-District by 155, but the deaths of the 129
non-residents in the London Hospital must be deducted. The proportion
of births to deaths is therefore 68 to 94.