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REPORT,
FOR THE QUARTER ENDING
26th SEPTEMBER, 1863.
Gentlemen,
During the thirteen weeks terminating on Saturday, the 26th
September, the official returns show, that there were registered in the "Whitechapel
District the deaths of 679 persons, of whom 370 were males and 309
females. There were also registered the births of 644 children, of whom 320
were males, and 324 females. From these returns it appears that, the deaths
have exceeded the births by 35. But then it must be borne in mind that there
were 103 deaths in the London Hospital, of which deaths there were only 11 of
persons belonging to this District, and of the other deaths 42 were of nonresidents,
and 50 were the result of accident. If therefore, we deduct the
deaths of the non-residents and those which were occasioncd by accident, then
the returns of the births and deaths in this District will read thus:—births 644,
deaths 587, but to this number ought to be added the deaths of all those residents
who died in the several charitable institutions in the Metropolis; Of these however
we have no return.