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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my annual report on the vital
statistics of Bethnal-Green for the year 1894, which terminated
on the 29th of December last.
For the purposes of this report I take the population of the Parish
at 123,000, which is the same estimate as that for 1893.
I usually calculate the population upon the basis of the registered
births, as birth-rates are known to vary within very narrow limits.
But though the births in 1894 were 120 fewer than in the previous
year, I do not think that this fact indicates a relative diminution
in our population, as the birth rate all over the United Kingdom
was two per thousand below the mean rate of the ten years, 1884 to
1893, and that for London was the lowest in any year on record.
In th 6 past the census has been taken only once in ten years, and
the estimates in the intercensal years can only be approximately
correct. My estimate will be checked next year by the census
which will be taken all over London.
By the Equalization of Rates (London) Act, the Registrar-
General is called upon to furnish annually estimates, of the population
of the various parishes of London, and it has been resolved
that a census must be taken every five years, the first being in 1896.
The numbers of births registered in the three sub-districts, into
which the parish is divided for registration purposes, are shewn in
the following table, together with the estimated populations; the
census enumeration of 1891 and the births registered in that year
are also shewn for purposes of comparison.