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there died 92 persons who belonged to the District, and whose
former residences I have obtained from the Registrar-General's
Office by special arrangement. I am thus in a position to compile
a correct District Mortality Table (Table D*), which indicates that
856 males, and 768 females, or a total of 1,624 persons, belonging
to our District died during the year, distributed amongst the
registration Sub-Districts as follows:—the Spitalfields, 560 ; the
Mile End New Town, 339; the Whitechapel Church, 428; the
Goodman's-fields, 170 ; and the Algate, 127.
Compared with the preceding year, there is a total increase of
168 deaths, disposed amongst the Sub-Districts as follows ; In the
Spitalfields, an increase of 33 ; in the Mile End New Town, an
increase of 49 ; in the Whitechapel Church, an increase of 87 ; in
the Goodman's-fields, a decrease of five ; and in the Aldgate, an
increase of 4. In the two latter the population has remained
almost stationary, whilst in the three former the rate of increase in
inhabitants has probably been proportionate to the increase in the
number of deaths.
The natural increase of births over deaths is 901, against 917
for 1885, and 929 for 1884. Allowance being made for the relative
difference in the populations, our natural increase is almost
identical with that for the whole of the Metropolis.
I have calculated the Distriift death-rate at 22-51 per 1000 for
the year, but as this rate is influenced greatly by the number of
common lodging-houses in the District, I would invite your attention
to my remarks upon this subject before you criticise it
severely as a phenomenal high death-rate. We will now proceed
to examine into these 1624 District deaths. In Table F†, will be
found the ages at death of those who died during the year, from
which I extracft the following calculation:—
26-7%of the total deaths occurred under the age of 1 year
17.7 ,, „ ,, betwen the ages of 1 and 5
3.4 ,, ,, ,, ,, 5 and 20
12.6 ,, ,, ,, ,, 20 and 40
19.5 „ ,, ,, ,, 40 and 60
19.8 ,, ,, ,, over the age of 60
2.9 ,, ,, ,, ,, 80
* Page 27. † Page 28.