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discussed very seriously by your Board. During the whole of this
period, the disease has been rife in the East, and it has occasionally
come very close to our shores. Year by year, however, knowledge
has taught many new things which wisdom has utilised, and
thus, with total demolition of insanitary areas, and improvements
in houses in crowded localities, combined with the sharp look-out
which has been maintained by our Port Authorities, the enemy
has only landed very rarely, and has had no chance to do much
mischief when it did so. It is hoped that increased efforts will be
made amongst the strong-holds of Cholera, so that the disease may
cease to be the dreadful scourge it has proved in the past. Our
only effectual safety lies in the disease ceasing to exist in
Egypt.
The last volume of the Census Returns has just been issued. I
have examined these Returns, and have extracted those Tables
which referred to the Whitechapel District. I have prefaced this
Report with them, so that they might be readily available for future
reference. As. these figures are open to inspection by any requiring
special information, I shall only revert to the altered condition
since the last Census from one point of view, viz:—the influence
of Foreign immigration, upon the Whitechapel District. Included in
the City of London, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Stepney, St.
George-in-the-East, Mile End Old Town and Poplar, 39,307
foreigners of all nationalities were present on the Census night,
and of these, Whitechapel possessed 17,961. Taking, however,
only Russians and Russian Poles, the Whitechapel District possesses
13,538, of these country people as compared with 10,213 distributed
amongst all the other East End Parishes, including the City of
London. That we have received very many during the past ten
years is shown by the following figures:—

It has been still further demonstrated, that this immigration
of foreigners into the Whitechapel District, continued during the