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The total births which were registered in the Whitechapel
District during the 52 weeks of the year 1890 amounted to 2,730.
In the Infirmary during the year 105 children were born, of which
number 10 did not belong to district residents. I have distributed
the remaining births amongst the sub-distridts where the mothers
previously resided, and the births as corrected are set forth in the
Tables A and Ai of the appendix.*
The total deaths which were registered, during the year,
numbered 2,481. They were registered in the sub-districts
according to Table B. From this number must be deducted the
deaths of 777 persons not pertaining to the district, although
residing within it at the time of death. To the number thus
arrived at should be added the 162 deaths of residents in various
outlying districts of the Metropolis or in the extra-Metropolitan
Asylums. Thus the correct district mortality amounts to 1,866.
These figures are detailed in the customary forms in the Tables
of the Appendix, B, C, D.
In the absence of more reliable data, assuming the birth-rates
for 1871 and 1881 to afford some index to the birth-rate now, I
state our present population at 77,714. This will indicate a
death-rate of 24 per 1000 for the year under consideration.
The deaths of non-residents, which numbered 777, were
registered as follows:—In the London Hospital, 764; in the
Whitechapel Union Infirmary, 10; and in the Aldgate subregistration
district, 3. One half of our people whose deaths were
registered in public Institutions outside the Whitechapel Distridt,
died in the Asylums' Board Hospitals and extra-Metropolitan
Asylums. In the London General Hospitals a total of 65
district residents died, whilst in the London Hospital 144, and in
the Whitechapel Infirmary 395 residents' deaths were respectively
registered. Of the total 1,866 deaths of residents which took place
during the year, no less than 35.4 per cent. occurred in public
institutions.
The births exceeded the deaths in number by 854.
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