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persons, and on the north side, there are sixty-seven, consisting of 265 rooms, and capable of
receiving 1,765 persons. The total number of common lodging houses in this district that are
under police inspection is 117, in which are allowed 2,620 persons, the great majority of whom
are males. There are likewise a great number of houses under the observation of the police
which are as yet not registered, but are being prepared for approval; these probably amount to
about 100, and are calculated to afford accommodation to about 1000 persons. The registered
lodging houses in this district will therefore be able to accommodate about 3,500 persons.
I am indebted to Mb. Hems, Juh , one of the Local Registrars, for several interesting
particulars in the Whitechapel Church sub-district, which ho obtained from the returns of the
census papers. The most valuable portion of the information is that which relates to the ages
of the population; for it is by the classifying of all persons living in a district, according to their
ages, that we are able to compare the proportionate amount of the sickness and mortality in each.
Thus, if we find that there is a larger infantile population, or that there are many more aged
persons residing in one district than in another, we may expect to find, ceteris paribus, that
in the former district the mortality will be greater. The rate of mortality in the entire Whitechapel
District, (deducting the whole of the deaths in the London Hospital, which it is always
necessary to do in comparing the rate of mortality of this district with that of others), during
the last quarter, was, of persons under five years of ago, fifty-three per cent., and of those
between the ages of five and sixty, it was only thirty-one per cent., and of those above sixty
years of age, it was sixteen per cent. For the purpose of being able to make a more correct
comparison of the mortality in this and in the other sub-districts, I have classified the ages of
the population under three headsinfancy, youth and manhood, and old age. Under the
first head are included all persons under the age of ten years.* This may be considered as the
dependent class. Under the second head are included all those between the ages of ten and
sixty, at which period of life, health is most vigorous, and the power of producing wealth is
most abundant. This class constitutes the strength of a district. Under the third head are
included all above sixty years of age, or that class, who, from physical infirmity, are unable to
support themselves by bodily labour, and who, to a certain extent, may also be considered as
belonging to the dependent class.
In the first division there are 1858, which number, after deducting the 405 persons in
the London Hospital, and the fifty-seven persons whose ages are not returned from the total
population of the sub-district (8060) is 24.4 per cent. In the second division there are 5329 or
70'1 per cent. Or if we add to the first class those (653) whose ages are between ten and
fifteen, and deduct them from the second class, then the proportion of the former will be 33 per cent. and of the latter Gl'5 per cent. In the third division there are 411, or 5'4 per cent. The
census shows that in this sub-district there are nine blind persons, six males and three females,
whose ages are from forty-two to ninety-eight. There are seven deaf persons whose ages are
from nineteen to seventy years, of whom, five are males and two are females. There are two
dumb persons, one male and one female, aged respectively, sixteen and fifty-three. The deaf
and dumb are six in number, viz.: four males and two females, aged respectively, twelve,
thirty-nine, twenty-three, twenty-four, forty, and fifty-seven years. In this sub-district, there
are 405 Irish, 74 Scotch, 42 Welsh, 355 Germans, 92 Prussians, 19 Hanoverians, 5 Austrians,
96 Dutch, 51 Poles, 10 French, and 3 Danes. The total number of persons living
in this district, who are not natives of Great Britain and Ireland, is 625, or about
*All under fifteen years, in most districts, would bo a better number to include in the dependent class, but as
there are, iu this locality, many young persons at the ago o£ ton years earuiDg their own subsistonco, I havo
included those only under ten years of age.