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as for those who died in public Institutions and elsewhere, outside
the District, although they were strictly belonging to our population.
In the former class there were 749, and in the latter, which
includes the extra Metropolitan Asylums, 127 persons: vide
Appendix, Tables C and D.* Thus the corrected District Mortality
for the year was 1533.
It may interest the curious in such matters, to learn that 37.5
per cent. of the total District deaths were registered in public
Institutions; and 8.3 per cent. took place in public Institutions
not within the District.
The deaths corresponded to an annual death-rate of 20.4 per 1000.

To emphasise the lesson which is here taught. the eminent
sanitarian, Sir Edwin Chadwick, has published some statements
concerning the Whitechapel District. His Tables apply to the
years 1838-40, and they exhibit a sad story of the ravages caused
by Typhus and other forms of Fever, &c. Sir Edwin has preserved
some reports which show that efforts were subsequently made by
a voluntary Committee to amend the ill-condition which was
known to exist in some parts of the District, and which at that
time was thought to be productive of disease. In 1849, an
Association was formed for the purpose of "promoting habits
tending to the cleanliness, health and comfort, of the industrious
classes in the parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel." Of this
Association, the Rev. W. W. Champneys was President, and
amongst the Committee occur the names of Messrs. Fillingham,
French, Hawkins, Powell, Straw, &c. It was at once acknowledged
* Page 26.