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other parts of London, or, perhaps, from places still more
distant. In this way only can I account for the great
increase of houses recently erected and occupied.

The number of births is more by 60 than in 1861; the
number of deaths, as before stated, is 1836; and the excess
of births over deaths is fewer by 230.
The death rate for London was 2.349 per cent.; for Mile
End Old Town I find it was 2.39. In the Northern districts
the rate was 2.196; in the Western, 2.221; in the Southern,
2.261; in the Central, 2.578; and in the Eastern, 2.592
per cent.
The rate for Mile End is not only higher than it was in
the year previous to the one now reported on, but it also
exceeds that of London generally.
In the following Table there is but little to explain; and
as the same forms are from year to year adopted, the Vestry
are tolerably familiar with them, and, I have no doubt, can
gather from them more facts than from my description.