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Limehouse 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TO THE
BOARD OF WORKS
for the
LIMEHOUSE DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Report on the
health and sanitary condition of the Limehouse District for the
year 1882.
During that period there were registered in the District 2,275
births, 1,356 deaths, and 468 marriages. Of the births 1,165 were
male, and 1,110 female children; 1,295 were registered in Limehouse,
590 in Ratcliff, and 391 in Shadwell and Wapping, thus