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During the year, (which consisted of fifty-two weeks) ended on
Saturday, January 2nd, 1886, there were registered in the Whitechapel
District 2,378 births and 2,080 deaths. The customary
detailed particulars of these births and deaths are shown in Table A*
of the Appendix. From this Table it will be understood that of the
total births 1,209 were males, and 1,169 were females; whilst 1,225
males died to 855 females. Eighty of the births which were registered
in the Mile End New Town Sub-District took place in the Whitechapel
Union Infirmary or at the South Grove Workhouse, and five
of these children belonged to non-resident parents. I have (vide Table
B†) distributed the seventy-five births amongst the several SubDistridts
to which the mothers properly belonged.
The total number of deaths registered in the District I have
stated to be 2,080, and from this number must be deducted those
who, although dying in our Public Institutions or in other parts of
the District, were really non-residents; Table C‡ shews the SubDistricts
where these 731 non-resident deaths occurred. I may
mention in passing, that the two deaths of non-residents in the
Spitalfields Sub-District took place in the Metropolitan Free
Hospital, an excellent Institution formerly in Devonshire Square,
City, and which, after remaining for a brief period in Commercial
Street, became permanently established a year since in the Kingsland
Road. On the other hand I am aware that in Public Institutions
outside the Whitechapel District, there died 107 District residents,
so that the correct mortality for the whole District should be 1,456
for the year 1885, These deaths when referred to the Sub-District to
which they belonged (page 12) are found to have been, for the Spitalfields
Sub-District, 527; for the Mile End New Town Sub-District,
290; for the Whitechapel Church Sub-District, 341; for the Goodman's
Fields Sub-District, 175; and for the Aldgate Sub-District, 123.
Now, having presented for your consideration these definite figures,
my next duty would be to state the birth-rate and death-rate for the
year, and although, without any apparent misgiving on the subject,
a writer on vital statistics in a medical paper of extensive circulation
has kindly fixed our estimated population, I must confess that
notwithstanding all the means for information at my command, I can
collect no certainly reliable data. To carry out my previous method,
and estimate by the known birth-rate of the last census year, a plan
which for the year 1884 I was to some extent able to verify, I believe
*See page 12. †See page 12. ‡See page 12.