Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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 XII.—Increase or Decrease of Population, 1881-91, compared with Excess of Births over Deaths; Aggregate Number of Marriages, Births and Deaths, registered in each Registration District during the Ten Years 1881-90.
Registration Division and Districts. | Population. | Registered in the Ten Years 1881-90. | Excess of Registered Births over Deaths, 1881-90. | Increase or Decrease of Population between the Censuses of i83i and 1891. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1881. | 1891. | Marriag's | Births. | Deaths. | Increase. | Decrease | ||
London | 3 815,544 | 4.211,743 | 351.042 | 1329172 | 815,184 | 513,988 | 396,199 | — |
Shoreditch | 126,591 | 124,009 | 10,038 | 48,195 | 30,226 | 17,969 | — | 2,582 |
Bethnal Green | 126,961 | 129,132 | 24,392 | 51,312 | 29,083 | 22,229 | 2,171 | — |
Whitechapel | 71,363 | 74,462 | 4,607 | 25,607 | 22,605 | 3002 | 3,099 | — |
St. George-in-the-E. | 47,157 | 45,795 | 2,946 | 18,733 | 12,045 | 6,688 | - | 1,362 |
Stepney | 58,543 | 57,376 | 4,363 | 21,142 | 13,413 | 7,729 | — | 1,167 |
Mile End Old Town | 105,613 | 107,592 | 10,954 | 40,819 | 21,660 | 19,159 | 1,979 | — |
Poplar | 156,510 | 166,748 | 10,948 | 61,836 | 36,447 | 25,389 | 10,238 | - |
T able 8.—Inmates of Barracks, Workhouses and Hospitals, in Registration Districts and
Sub-Districts, and Civil Parishes.
Registration District. | Registration Sub-District. | Civil Parish. | Name of Institution. | Total Number of Inmates including Officers, &c. | Number of Special Inmates such as Paupers, Patients, &c. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Persons. | Males. | Fe-males | Persons. | Males | Females | ||||
Whitechapel | Mile End New Town | Mile End New Town | Workhouse Infirmary | 656 | 368 | 288 | 599 | 362 | 237 |
Whitechapel | Whitechapl Church | Whitechapel | Workhouse (Cas. Wrd) | 47 | 45 | 2 | 43 | 43 | — |
Whitechapel | Whitechapl Church | Whitechapel | London Hospital | 839 | 344 | 495 | 556 | 311 | 245 |
Whitechapel | Goodman's Fields | Tower of London | Tower of London | 683 | 657 | 26 | 650 | 650 | .. |
Table 6. —Total Tenements, and Tenements with less than Five Rooms , distinguishing those occupied by various numbers of Persons, in the Sanitary Areas of the Registration
Division.
Sanitary Area. | Rooms in Tenement. | Number of Tenements with less than five Rooms. | Number of Occupants of Tenements. | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 or more | |||
Whitechapel Total Tenements:— | 1 | 4,575 | 823 | 1341 | 1011 | 681 | 382 | 200 | 94 | 26 | 13 | 3 | 1 | - |
2 | 4,167 | 131 | 591 | 705 | 665 | 672 | 563 | 384 | 236 | 129 | 58 | 17 | 16 | |
3 | 2.173 | 34 | 166 | 269 | 288 | 356 | 310 | 250 | 218 | 141 | 82 | 35 | 24 | |
14,257. | 4 | 1.138 | 10 | 76 | 93 | 166 | 149 | 144 | 157 | 106 | 90 | 61 | 41 | 43 |