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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Quarter ended 30th September, 1882.
TO THE BOARD OF WORKS, WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, the 30th September,
1882, the total births in the District were 588, viz.: 313 males and
275 females; and the deaths 550, viz.: 321 males and 229 females.
The excess of births over deaths has therefore been, during the
Quarter, 38. As the deaths of 149 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 401, and
thus increasing the number of births above deaths to 187. 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 586, and the total deaths 601. The weekly average of births
was 45.0 and of deaths 46.2; and in the present Quarter the weekly
average of births has been 45.2 and of deaths 42.3.
In the Spitalfields sub-District the births were 177 and the deaths
88; in the Mile End New Town 173 and the deaths 140 (in this subDistrict
the Workhouse is situated); in the Whitechapel North 60
and the deaths 29; in the Whitechapel Church 57 and the deaths
228 (in this sub-District the London Hospital is situated); in the
Goodman's Fields 80 and the deaths 44; and in the Aldgate 41 and
the deaths 21. The deaths have exceeded the births in the Whitechapel
Church sub-District by 171, but the deaths of the 149 nonresidents
in the London Hospital must be deducted. The proportion
of births to deaths is therefore 57 to 79.