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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
I beg to lay before you my twentieth Annual Report on the
Vital Statistics of Bethnal Green; it is for the year 1895, which terminated
on the 28th of December last.
As much information as is possible is presented in the usual tablular
form, but I have this year departed from the custom of giving a
double set of tables, and have constructed all I now present on the
basis of the forms required by the Local Government Board; these
forms are compulsory for all officers appointed or re-appointed since
1891, and though I still contend that the tables settled by the
Society of Medical Officers of Health are preferable, time is too
short to prepare a double set, as this report is required, by order of
the Board, to be ready in May at the latest.
POPULATION.
I roughly estimate the population of Bethnal Green at 128,000;
this number is probably inaccurate, as the depopulation and slow
reoccupation of the Boundary Street area have exercised a very disturbing
influence upon my calculations.
QUINQUENNIAL CENSUS.
Whilst this report is in course of preparation, the first quinquennial
census of the whole of London is being taken, but the
figures will not be available in time for me to make use Of
them. The scope of the present enumeration is limited, and by
order of the Local Government Board, a simple count of the