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REPORT.
Office of the Board of Works, Whitechapel District,
No. 15, Great Alie Street, Whitechapel,
April 5th, 1884.
Gentlemen,
I have to report that during the quarter ended on Saturday,
March the 29th, there were registered in the Whitechapel District
630 births and 476 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 NewTown sub-district, I have distributed
the 25 births which took place in that institution, amongst the subdistricts
where the mothers previously resided, as shown in Table B.
The Whitechapel district has experienced so many changes since the
last census return in 1881, that it is difficult to accurately estimate its
present population ; but on reference to the birth statistics for that
year, and basing my calculations upon the birth-rate deduced therefrom,
it is probable that the population of the district has been
reduced by 2,000 persons. My calculations therefore are based upon
the assumption that the estimated population of the Whitechapel
District is 69,363.
The number of deaths registered in the district was 476, but
from 1 his total must be deducted the 166 deaths of non-residents
which took place in the district, chiefly in the public institutions : to
the 310 now arrived at, must be added the deaths of 14 residents,
registered in districts other than our own. Thus we have resulting
the deaths of 324 inhabitants, and with these figures I propose to treat
somewhat in detail. Tables C. and D. will explain the arrangement
I have described. The natural increase of births over deaths, is 306.
To render of value the figures which I have collected belonging to
the district, it is necessary to be able to institute a comparison with
similar sets of figures appertaining to the same district at a different
period, or with those of other districts. I have thought it preferable
to compare our own statistics with those of the metropolis and have