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REPORT.
Office of the Board of Works, Whitechapel District,
No. 15, Great Alie Street, Whitechapel,
July 14th, 1884.
Gentlemen,
I have to report that during the quarter ended on Saturday,
June the 28th, there were registered in the Whitechapel District 683
births and 531 deaths. The particulars of these births and deaths
are set out in Table A of the Appendix. As the Whitechapel Union
Infirmary is in the Mile End New Town sub-district, I have distributed
the 28 births which took place in that institution amongst the subdistricts
where the mothers previously resided, as shown in Table B.
I have assumed, for statistical purposes, that the population of the
Whitechapel District still remains 69,363.
The number of deaths registered in the District was 531, but
from this total must be deducted the 172 deaths of non-residents
which took place in the three public institutions, viz.:—the London
Hospital, the Metropolitan Free Hospital, and the Whitechapel
Union Infirmary; to the 359 now arrived at, must be added the
deaths of 21 residents, registered in districts other than our own.
Thus we have resulting the deaths of 380 inhabitants. Tables C and
D will explain the arrangement I have described. The natural
increase of births over deaths is 303, against 306 last quarter.
To appreciate correctly the value of the above figures, I have
Continued the same plan which I adopted in my last Report, and
side by side with our own District figures will be found, those which
refer to the deaths of London inhabitants, as reported weekly in the
valuable returns issued from the office of the Registrar-General. We
thus find that the Whitechapel District has a mortality at the rate