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Density of population and death-rate in certain localities.
The total area of the Whitechapel District is 406 acres, or 1,965,040
square yards ; and the population at the last census was 76,332. The water
area of the District is 23 acres. The density of the population is therefore
25.7 square yards for each inhabitant.
The deaths, excluding those of non-residents and those which were the
result of accident, were, for the quarter ending, March 1873, 2023, which
gives a death-rate of 26.4 per 1000. This rate of mortality, however, varies
in different sub-districts. Thus, in a block of buildings, bounded on the
north by the south side of Royal Mint Street; on the east by the west side
of Dock Street; on the south by the north side of Hog Yard; and on the
west by the east side of Glasshouse Street, the rate of mortality was 43.3
per 1000.
This block, which I will designate as No. 1, comprises, according to the
measurement kindly made for me by Mr. S. W. Iron, the Surveyor, 3689
square yards, and contains a population, as enumerated by Mr. Battram, on
a house-to-house visitation, of 415, viz. 242 adults and 173 children, allowing
18 persons either for rooms which were found to be empty, or into which
the Inspector could not gain admission. The density of population in this
block is 8.8 per square yard. The total deaths in this population have been
18, which, as above stated, is at the rate of 43.3 per 1000. This block
contains Hayes Court, Cherubim Court, Glass House Buildings, a portion of
Royal Mint Street, a portion of Glass House Street, and a portion of Dock
Street. In this block there are 47 houses, which contain in the aggregate
191 rooms.
No. 2 block is bounded on the north by the south side of Boyal
Mint Street; on the east by the west side of Glass House Street; on the
south by the north side of New Martin Street and Bracey's Buildings; on
the west by the east side of Darby Street, as far as the late "Weigh House
Schools; from thence to the backs of the premises in Crown Court, Aldgate,
to the north-west corner of Bracey's Buildings. This block comprises one
side of New Martin Street, Crown Court, Blue Anchor Yard, Garden Court,
Bracey's Buildings, Kettleby Court, Cooper's Court, Blue Anchor Yard,
Bussell Court, Slater's Court, Holloway Court, Parson's Court, Hairbrain
Court, east side of Darby Street, Compasses Court, a portion of Royal Mint
Street, a portion of Glass House Street, Crawford's Court, Christopher Court,
and Seven Star Court. This block has a superficial area of 13,056 square
yards, and comprises 171 houses, containing 547 rooms, and has a popution
of 1609, allowing three persons for eaeh unoccupied room, or for a room to
which the Inspector could not gain admission. The adults were ascertained
to be 876, and the children 733. The density of the population is 8.1
square yards to each person. The deaths among this population were 59,
which is at the rate of 36.6 per 1000.