Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — Passing of Whitechapel. [ARTICLE]

Passing of Whitechapel.

The district of Whitechapel, London, is rapidly ceasing to be, as it is g< aerally considered, a distinctly cockney-populated locality. In 1891 one in every five inhabitants of the district was a foreigner, and since then there has been a great influx of foreigners, mostly Russians and Russian Poles. More than two thousand of these foreigners settled in the district during last year, driving out almost as many The birth rate in Whitechapel is fortyone, as compared with twenty-five in the western districts of London, and forty-seven in Russia. Even if immigration should cease it is considered pretty certain that the Russians and Poles will soon predominate in Whitechapel.