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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Whitechapel 1893
The annual report on the sanitary condition of the Whitechapel District, (with vital and other statistics), for the year 1893 (consisting of 52 weeks) being the tenth annual report
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T able B.—Wards into which the Metropolitan Parishes have been respectively divided
| l88l. | 1891. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inhabited Houses. | Population. | Inhabited Houses. | Population. | No. of Rated Householders. | |
| Whitechapel*— | |||||
| East Ward | 1454 | n.893 | 1616 | 14,491 | 1973 |
| Middle Ward | 843 | 7494 | 831 | 8348 | 1420 |
| South Ward | 1245 | 11,273 | 859 | 9445 | 1503 |
| 3542 | 30,660 | 3306 | 32.284 | 4896 | |
| *Exclusive of the part of the Parish within the City of London. | |||||
T able C.—Divisions! of the London School Board District; Houses and Population.
| Houses. | Population. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tower Hamlets Division:— | Inhabited. | Uninhabited | Buildings. | Persons. | Males. | Females. |
| Bow, Bromley, Holy Trinity, Minories, Limehouse, Mile End New Town, Mile End Old Town, Norton Folgate, Old Artillery Ground, Old Tower Without, Poplar, Ratcliff, East Smithfield, St. George-in-the-East, St. Katherine-by-the - Tower, Shadwell, Spitalfields, and Wapping, civil parishes; The Tower of London, and Whitechapel, civil parish, except that part in the City of London. | 55,721 | 3190 | 151 | 451,931 | 228,058 | 223,873 |