Whitechapel District

The Whitechapel District was a district in Middlesex from 1855 to 1900 , and since 1889 in the County of London . It was formed by the Metropolis Management Act 1855 from parts of the Tower Division in Middlesex and went on in 1900 in the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney .

In 1895 a total of 73,000 people lived in an area of ​​1.37 km². With a population density of 53,000 / km², the district was the most densely populated in London at the time and thus one of the most densely populated in the world. About a quarter of these residents were made up of immigrants, a large proportion of whom came from Russia and Poland . Both birth and death rates were well above the values ​​for the rest of London.

Whitechapel District comprised parts of the former Tower Division and consisted of the parishes:

• Mile End New Town
• Liberty of Norton Folgate
• Old Artillery Ground
• St Botolph without Aldgate
• Spitalfields
• Whitechapel (borough)
• Liberties of the Tower

It thus consisted of the core areas of the London East End , the terms are often used synonymously in the historical context.

The government formed eleven elected vestrymen on the Whitechapel Board of Works.

Remarks

1. ↑ Anonymous: Sanitary deficiencies in East London , British Medical Journal January 19, 1895, PMC 2507982 (free full text)
2. ^ Metropolis Management Act of 1855