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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 during
the year 1889.
At a distance of eight years from the last census it is
difficult to estimate with any near approach to accuracy the
population of this District, subject as it is to influences which
do not affect places of regular and progressive growth. Limehouse
has probably increased in population since the last census by
some hundreds, for it is only on that side of your District
that it is capable of expansion, but Ratcliff, Shadwell, and
Wapping, have I suspect decreased in imputation, owing to the
demolition of houses under the Artisans' and Lalnmrers' Dwellings
Act, 1875, in Brook Street, Ratcliff, and Angel Gardens, Shadwell,
and by the London Riverside Fish Market Company, in Lower
Shadwell. For the purposes of this Report I estimate the
population of your District as 60,000.
The Births registered during the year, numbered 2,109, of
which, 1,186 belonged to Limehouse, 481 to Ratcliff, and 442 to
Shadwell and Wapping. These figures indicate a birth rate in the
District of 35 per 1,000 population, a number somewhat below the
ten years' average. The birth rate of London was 30.3 per 1,000
inhabitants.