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poor people to whom I allude—people who have been so cruelly
treated abroad, that they flock here in droves and settle in the
Whitechapel District as permanent paupers, will know how much
anxiety and work is necessary to enforce habits amongst them, which
although natural to more civilized people, are not understood by the
class to which I allude. It was no doubt the result of this undue
proportion of foreigners to our own inhabitants in the District that
originated a letter to your Board from the Sanitary Committee to
the Jewish Board of Guardians, a copy of which is appended to this
Report, together with the reply from your own Sub-Committee,
which was sent to the gentlemen who framed the complaints. The
reply of your Sub-Committee was based upon personal investigation
by the individual gentlemen who formed that Sub-Committee, aided
by the opinion of your Surveyor when necessary, and strengthened
by communications from many offlcers in the Union; and although
a further communication has been received from the complainants,
the results of your Sub-Committee's inspections and meetings
adopted by the Committee of Works and also by your Board remain
unaffected.
But to return to the subject of our estimated population. In
1881 the census return gave the total inhabitants of the Whitechapel
Distnct as 71,363, divided out amongst the Sub-Districts as follows:--
In the Spitalfields Sub-District 22,585
,, Mile End New Town Sub-District 15,473
,, Whitechapel Church ,, 17,490
,, Goodman's Fields ,, 9,713
„ Aldgate ,, 6,102
The figures here quoted from the Registrar-General's Report
prove that a birth-rate appertained to the District for the year under
consideration of 36.2 per 1000 Now supposing the birth-rate to
have remained uniform, the population for the year 1884 would have
been 69,335. It will be seen upon reference to my previous Reports
that I had estimated the population at 69,363, and as this calculation
had been arrived at by carefully taking all circumstances into consideration
which could affect the emigration and immigration of the
Whitechapel people, I felt satisfied that the estimate mentioned was
not far wrong, but I was not prepared to find such satisfactory
support derived from the evidence which I have produced. Carrying