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Table B sets forth the new cases of sickness which have
come to my knowledge during the year, together with the sources
of such information. These are returns made to me by the Poor
Law Medical Officer, the Resident Medical Officer of the East
London Children's Hospital, the Medical Officer of the Tower
Hamlets Dispensary, and Private Practitioners; such returns and
notifications have Wen distributed among the Parishes of the
District in which they occurred, and consequently the East London
Children's Hospital docs not appear in table B as a separate locality;
of the 1,363 Deaths, 336 were those of children under one year,
and 246 those of children over one and under five years. The Deaths
of children under five years therefore, amounted to 582, a number
which corresponds to a rate of 42.7 per cent of the total deaths.
The average annual rate of such Deaths for the last ten years was
44.9 per cent
The Deaths in Public Institutions within and without tho
District of persona ordinarily resident therein were 352.
The Deaths from the principal Zymotic diseases numbered
173 and correspond to death rate of 2.9 per 1,000 population.
Such diseases are Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever,
Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Typhus, Enteric or Typhoid, Simple
Continued Fever, and Diarrhœa.
Small Pox.—No death was registered from this disease
in the District during the year.
Measles.—The corrected number of deaths was 19, of
which 15 occurred in Limehouse. The ages at death, in all cases,
were below five years. The Annual death rate was .33 per 1000,
that of Loudon being 53 per 1,000, The Annual average
number of deaths for the last ten years was 50. Forty-one
cases came to my knowledge, viz., 21 in Limehouse, 7 in
Ratcliff, and 13 in Shadwell and Wapping. As this is not a disease
the notification of which is compulsory in your district, the returns
of sickness are of course imperfect, a statement which applies in