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Upon Table D* will be found a record of the total deaths which
occurred during the Quarter in London, as well as in the Whitechapel
District. I have also arranged opposite the name of each
disease specified by the Registrar-General the number of deaths
which were due to that disease amongst the inhabitants of London
and the Whitechapel District respectively. Table Ef indicates the
ages at which death took place amongst the Whitechapel residents,
as arranged by the Registrar-General. The natural increase of
resident births over resident deaths for the fourteen weeks is 170.
Assuming the population for the last Quarter of the year to be the
same as estimated at the commencement, and correcting the figures for
comparison with a quarter having thirteen weeks, a mortality appertains
at the rate of 237 per 1000 per annum. Of course it must be
remembered, that so far as possible, I have collected the deaths of
Whitechapel residents from all parts so as to correctly register them,
whilst not only is this not done in the London figures I have quoted,
but the deaths of those known London residents, to the number of
177, which took place at the Asylums Hospitals outside Registration
London, are withheld from the total given. Not only will this lessen
the difference in the comparative returns, but it will considerably
favour the Metropolis against Whitechapel District, when the
zymotic mortality returns are compared. Without the proportional
addition to the sum total of London deaths, but merely taking them
as they are given, the Whitechapel District confesses to a zymotic
death-rate equal to 117.1 per 1000 of the total deaths; and the
London deaths from the same causes are equal to 110.0 per 1000 of
the total deaths. An analysis of zymotic deaths in the Distridt
shows that 3 deaths occurred from small-pox, 10 from measles, 17
from scarlet-fever, 1 from whooping-cough, 4 from diphtheria, 2 from
simple fevers, 8 from enteric fever, and 7 from diarrhoea.
During the Quarter, those infants who died in London under the
age of one year equalled 22.4 per cent, of the total deaths, and 13.6
Infant
Mortaility
per cent, of the registered births. The deaths of
children under 5 years of age, including the above,
equalled 36.7 per cent. of the total deaths, and 25.0
per cent. of the registered births. In the Whitechapel
District, the infants who died under the age of one year
equalled 20.4 per cent. of the total deaths, and 14.8 per cent. of the
registered births ; whilst the deaths of children under the age of 5,
including the above, equalled 38.0 per cent. of the total deaths, and
27.5 Per cent. of the registered births.
* See page 10. † See page 11, "