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REPORT FOR -1887.
ALTHOUGH no direct evidence can be adduced to support
my proposition, I am of opinion that the great influx of
foreigners into our District has ceased. The increase of population
therefore, must be explained on other grounds, and I think it is due,
firstly, to the natural increase of births over deaths, and secondly,
to the peopling of new Dwellings which have been opened since
my last report.
I estimate the population of the Whitechapel District to have
been, during the year 1887, 73,485, and disposed as follows:—
In the Spitalfields Sub-District 20,057
,, Mile End New Town ditto 23,344
,, Whitechapel Church ditto 17,114.
,, Goodman's Fields ditto 7,370
,, Aldgate ditto 5,600
Total 73,485
The total Births which were registered in the Whitechapel
District during the 52 weeks of the year 1887, were 2572, an
increase of 41 as compared with the preceding year. The Deaths
during the same period were 2246, being 17 fewer than in 1886.
Tables A and B* of the appendix illustrate these statements, and
indicate that 1248 boys were born to 1324 girls; whilst 1199 males
and 1047 females died.
But in these latter are included many persons who, belonging
to other Districts, took advantage of our Public Institutions, and
thus became registered in one of our Sub-Districts. On the other
hand, many of our own Residents died in Public Institutions in
other Districts. I have therefore, again arranged in tabulated form
those deaths which influence the District mortality statistics.
*Page 19.