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in the District in the year 1876, and ten years preceding:—
Population
estimated at
the middle
of the year
1876,
No. of
Inhabited
Houses in
Parish or
District.
Births.
Deaths.
Marriages.
58,700
7,820
2,202
1,434
522
1875
7,820
2,167
1,518
593
1874
7,816
2,082
1,361
624
1873
7,816
2,070
1,483
606
1872
7,816
2,048
1,096
608
1871
7,816
2,082
1,227
579
1870
7,462
1,980
1,236
578
1869
7,462
1,938
1,513
526
1868
7,462
2,055
1,335
554
1867
7,462
2,029
1,176
657
1866
7,462
2,037
1,852
722
Average of 10
yrs. 1866—75
7,639
2,048
1,379
604
NOTES.
1. Population at Census 1871, 57,690.
2. Area in Acres, 576.
3. Average No. of persons in each house at Census 1871, 7.5.
From a perusal of this Table it will be seen that the births
and deaths were above, and the marriages below the average of the
preceding ten years. Of the deaths 655 occurred in Limehouse,
363 in Ratcliff, 212 in Shadwell and Wapping, 188 in the Stepney
Sick Asylum, 9 in the Smallpox Hospital, and 7 in the Fever
Hospitals. Estimating the population of the Parish of Limehouse
at about 31,000, that of the Hamlet of Ratcliff at 16,130, and that of
the parishes of Shadwell and Wapping at 11,640, and distributing the
deaths that occurred in Institutions outside the District among the
parishes according to their population, we obtain a death-rate in
Limehouse of 24.3 per 1,000; in Ratcliff one of 26 per 1,000; and
in Shadwell and Wapping one of 21.5 per 1,000. By referring to