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Limehouse 1898
Report on the sanitary condition of the Limehouse District (comprising the Parishes of Limehouse, Shadwell, and Wapping, and the Hamlet of Ratcliff) for the year 1898
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LIM 2
TO THE
BOARD OF WORKS
for the
LIMEHOUSE DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my second Annual
Report on the Health and Sanitary Condition of the Limehouse
District, for the year 1898.
The population estimated to the middle of 1898 was 58,728.
Births.— The births registered during the year numbered
1912.
1153 were registered in Limehouse.
442 „ „ Ratcliff.
317 „ „ Shadwell and Wapping.
This corresponds to a birth rate of 32.5 per 1,000 of the
population. The birth rate is 3 per 1,000 more than that of
London as a whole.