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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
I this year attain my majority as a Medical Officer of Health,
and have the honour to present to you my Twenty-first Annual
Report on the vital statistics of Bethnal Green for the year 1896,
the fifty-second week of which terminated on the 2nd of January,
1897.
QUINQUENNIAL CENSUS.
On the night of March 29th, a census of the administrative County
of London was taken, and Bethnal Green was found to contain on
that date, 129,162 persons, The official report of the Registrar
General was issued in the following August; it, however, merely
contains the bare numbers of the population in the Wards into
which the forty Metropolitan Parishes have been divided for the
election of Vestrymen.
The numbers are as follows, and the corresponding figures of the
1891 census are shewn for purposes of comparison, together with
the inhabited houses in that year.