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THE THIRTY-NINTH
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
FOR THE YEAR 1894.
To the Vestry of the
Hamlet of Mile End Old. Town.
Gentlemen,
The year 1894 having closed it now becomes my
duty as your Medical Officer of Health to issue an Annual
Report of the health of the Hamlet for this period, in accordance
with the order of the Local Government Board under which I
hold my appointment. For the information of the many new
members of the Board I may mention that I have had the
honour of presenting to the Vestry eight previous Annual Reports.
In drawing out an official statement of this kind it is of the
greatest possible moment that the statistics of population, by
which all deductions are made, should be as accurate as possible;
I find that in a number of Reports previous to the last census the
population of Mile End was much over-estimated. That the
population of our Hamlet has increased by leaps and bounds it is
only necessary to refer to the figures of the five last census which
were as follows: 1861—73,064; 1871—93,146; 1881—105,573;
1891—107,565; it will be seen by this data that during the last
ten years the increase was not so great as any ten years previous
a result no doubt due to the fact that the whole area of our district
has now been built over. The population for the middle of
the year 1894 is estimated as 108,242 this calculation is arrived
at by logarithims, a very accurate method during intercensal
periods, and on these figures the Rates of Mortality are based in
the ensuing pages.