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Offices of the Board of Works for Whitechapel District.
Sanitary Department:
No. 15, Great Alie Street,
London, E.
January 2yd, 1893.
Gentlemen,
Readers of the Reports which I have hitherto had
the honor to present to your Board, are aware that in the
classification of the various statistics which form the backbone of
these Reports, I have used, as a model, those tables which are issued
from the Office of the Registrar-General for England. By
adopting this arrangement, a scale for comparison purposes is
presented, so that I am enabled to invite attention to matters
which contrast both favourably and unfavourably between the
Metropolis as a whole and the Whitechapel District.
With this object in view, all the most important Tables which
are included in the Appendix to my Reports, are built up
week by week, thus enabling your Officers to take stock every
week of the chief events which influence the health of the
inhabitants. By this arrangement attention is at once directed to
any unusual occurrence, which might otherwise escape observation
for a time. I am so deeply impressed by the usefulness of
the plan I have indicated that I propose to adhere to it in the
present Report.
When the year 1892 had almost expired, an Order was issued
by the Local Government Board, which required that all Reports
of Medical Officers of Health, should contain certain information
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