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whole of last year. During 1893, I received through arrangements
with the Port of London Medical Officer of Health, imformation
that 3886 immigrants were received into the District, under the
protection of the Committee of the Jewish Shelter in Leman Street.
Investigation proved that over 1926 of these persons settled in
Whitechapel, the remainder either went abroad or migrated to
neighbouring Districts. Calculated as usual, therefore, it is
probable that the population for 1893 has been under estimated.
At the Census of 1891, the Whitechapel Districft possessed
over 67 per cent, of those Russians and Russian Poles, who were
then resident within the Metropolis, and it will be seen from the
above statement that the percentage is still increasing.
With these few general remarks, I proceed to deal as usual
with those facts which influenced the Sanitary condition of the
Whitechapel District during the year 1893.
Marriages during the year within the District amounted
to 550.
The total number of births which were registered in the four Subregistration
Districts during the 52 weeks amounted to 3098. Of such
number, 126 occurred in the Whitechapel Union Infirmary, which
is in the Mile End New Town Sub-registration District. In 18 of
these cases the children were born of women not belonging to the
District, and of the remainder, the mothers had previously resided
in the Sub-registration Districts as follows -66 in the Subregistration
District of Spitalfields; 19 in that of Mile End New
Town; 15 in that of Whitechapel Church; and 8 in that of
Goodman's Fields. Correctly disposed, therefore, in the same order
as the deaths are arranged, the births may be distributed as
follows:—
Spitalfields. Mile End New Town. Whitechapel Church Goodman's Fields. Total.
907 908 841 424 3080
The District birth-rate therefore equalled 40.9 per 1000.
The 1892 District births corrected for a year of 52 weeks, equalled
3051. The total deaths which were registered during the year
amounted to 2688. Table B* may be consulted for the numbers
registered in each Sub-registration District.
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