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Office of the Board of Works for the Whitechapel District,
No. 15, Great Alie Street,
London, E.,
February 21 st, 1889.
Gentlemen
Before commencing my Annual Report for the
year 1888, it may prove useful and not entirely uninteresting to
note briefly certain statements contained in the Annual Report of
the Registrar-General for the preceding year. The recorded
death-rate for registration London was 19.57 Per 1000, whilst the
corrected death-rate for the year equalled 20.77 Per 1000. The
year 1887 was again a year of remarkably low rates; the marriagerate
and the death-rate being each the lowest on record, and the
birth-rate the lowest since 1849.
The marriage-rate equalled 16.2 persons to 1000 of the
population, and the birth-rate was 31.7 to 1000 inhabitants.
This summary is not quite so accurate as usual in its
distribution of the deaths amongst the various sanitary areas, for
I note that we are credited with 25 fewer deaths than really took
place in the Whitechapel District.