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Limehouse 1899
Report on the sanitary condition of the Limehouse District (comprising the Parishes of Limehouse, Shadwell, and Wapping, and the Hamlet of Ratcliff) for the year 1899
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LIM3
TO THE
BOARD OF WORKS
FOR THE
LIMEHOUSE DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report
on the Health of the District, during the year 1899.
POPULATION.— The population estimated to the middle
of 1899 was 58,807 distributed as follows: —
Limehous 33.390
Ratcliff 14,966
Shadwell and Wapping 10,451
BIRTHS.— The births registered during the year numbered
1933 of which: —
1144 were registered in Limehouse, or at the rate of 34.2 per 1,000.
463 Ratcliff „ 30.9 „
326 „ Shadweli and Wapping „ 31.1 „
This corresponds to a birth rate of 32.8 per 1,000 of the
population for the year for the whole district; the average for
the last ten years being 33.5 per 1000.