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REPORT.
The Marriages which took place within the Whitechapel District during
the year 1900 numbered 526. Last year they amounted to 505, and in the two
previous years they were respectively 512 and 504.
The total births which were registered in the three Sub-Registration
Districts during the 52 weeks of the year 1900 amounted to 2,902, as compared
with 3,005 in 1899, and 3,125 for the year 1898; Whitechapel is thus participating
in the general lowering of the birth-rate which has been noticed as
existing throughout the Kingdom. In the Whitechapel Infirmary 104 births
took place, being 20 fewer than in the previous year. Of this number 22 were
the children of women who had not previously resided in the District.

so that the number of births as corrected amounted to 2,880, viz.:—1,483 boys
and 1,397 girls. See Table A* of the Appendix.
The District birth-rate equalled 33.8 per 1,000: that is, if we assume that
the population now living within the area comprised in the calculation still
remains at 85,000 persons of all ages. As I am writing, great preparations are
being made at the Government Offices to take the Census in the coming spring.
Probably such Census may apparently confirm my estimate; but from an
intimate knowledge of the houses and the people I am confident that more than
ordinary care will have to be exercised if every Return proves to be a correct
statement of the number of persons who slept in each particular house on a
special night.
The total deaths which were registered during the year numbered 2,497,
viz.:—1,433 males and 1,122 females.
Table B† of the Appendix illustrates the deaths which were registered in
each Sub-Registration District. For my purpose a deduction has now to be
made of those deaths to the number of 1,171, which occurred among nonresidents
(mostly in the London Hospital); and then to the remaining sum
must be added the deaths of those residents who died in Outlying Public
Institutions, or elsewhere outside the District. These deaths numbered 219,
against 216 and 203 for the two preceding years. The places where the
deaths were registered are tabulated in the Appendix as usual, Table D‡.
The corrected number of District deaths for the year 1900 was 1,545,
against 1,644 and 1,576 for the two previous years respectively.
Males died to the number of 889; 656 females died. A death-rate for
the years of 18.0 per 1,000, as against 19.3 in the year 1899, is to be recorded.
The excess of births over deaths for the year 1900 was 1,335. Notice
this factor in the several years antecedent to the one which originates this
Report:—1,335, 1,532, 1,548, and 1,554.
The age at death of the residents who died during the year will be seen
recorded in Table F‡ of the Appendix.
* Page 24. † Page 24. ‡ Page 25.