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In Table C* there appears particulars of the 755 persons whose
deaths were registered in, but who did not really belong to the
District.
Thus 2 men died in the Aldgate Sub-District; 4 males and 1
female in the Mile End New Town Sub-District; and 439 males,
and 309 females in the Whitechapel Church Sub-District, all in the
London Hospital. Table D† details the Public Institutions to
which the 111 Whitechapel residents resorted either as permanent
homes or temporary refuges. These factors enable me readily to
construct Table E‡ in which is demonstrated the exact state of
the District loss by death, for each quarter of the year under
consideration.
Instead of an increase of 168 deaths, (vide Report for 1886,) I
have now to report a decrease of 22 deaths, as compared with last
year, but each Sub-District does not occupy in this respect an
equally happy position, for whilst the deaths are fewer this year in
Mile End New Town, the Whitechapel Church, and the Goodman's
Fields Sub-Districts; in the Spitalfields, and in the Aldgate SubDistricts,
they have become increased. I am forced to confess
that I can offer no explanation for these relative differences, as
they do not in any way correspond to the estimated variation of
population in the Sub-Districts.
The natural increase of births over deaths is 970. In 1886, it
was 901; in 1885, it was 917; and in 1884, it was 929.
Assuming my premises to be accurate, then the Whitechapel
death-rate for the year 1887 was 21.8 per 1000, which is the lowest
rate ever recorded in the District.

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