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the Whitechapel District those Infants who died under the age of one year
equalled 266 per cent. of the total deaths, and 14.7 per cent. of the
registered births.
The deaths of children under five years of age, including the above, were
for London, equal to 86.9 per cent. of the total deaths, and 24.9 per cent.
of the registered births. In the Whitechapel District they were equal to
40.2 percent. of the total deaths, and 22.2 per cent. of the registered births.
For comparison purposes I have extracted a few figures from a Table
prepared by the Registrar-Geueral. From a Public Health point of view
these records are of great value. Our District again occupies the best
position in the list.
The Tower of London deaths are included in those for the Whitechapel
District, although for rating purposes it is " extra-parochial."

I have to express my regret at being unable to include with this Report
some maps of the District spotted to represent the various dangerous
infectious diseases.
It is a course so generally adopted and universally approved that only the
absence of a correct map of the District can excuse their absence from any
modern Health Report.
I have to offer as a substitute the Street List, which will be found to
contain the chief Zymotic diseases set out in alphabetical form. It is in
the Appendix. See Table 0*.
A crude number of figures without some guide to their meaning being
of slight value, I have introduced Table I. to enable the reader to readily
contrast the mortality per cent. from each class of disease, to total deaths
for Whitechapel, and also for the Metropolis as a whole. An experience
in this way is presented similar to that recorded in former years. Many
of the diseases are fairly balanced in the two columns. In both the
Respiratory and the Constitutional Class, Whitechapel, suffers by comparison,
but it gains considerably in that most important class which is
known as ' preventible disease,' the ' Zymotic' or ' germ ' class of diseases.
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