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BIRTH AND DEATH-RATE.
The Births registered during the fifty-two weeks of the registration
year were 4,022; giving a Birth-rate of 39·5 per 1000.

It will be seen by the above table that the Births in our district
are as nearly as possible the same in this year as they have
been in any one year for the last ten years and this is nearly
double the death-rate.
DEATH AND DEATH-RATE.
The number of Deaths that occurred during the past year was
2,282, giving a death-rate of 21·1 per 1,000 per annum, that of
the Metropolis being 17.4 for the same period, whilst that of the
Eastern District was 21·8; the Deaths included in this number
are those that have taken place in Public Institutions such as
Hospitals, Asylums, in various parts of the Metropolis outside
our district but who belong to the Hamlet, the number of these
were during the year 413. On reference to the tables of Mortality
it will be seen that the Deaths which took place from zymotic
diseases were slightly higher this year, and is accounted for by the
increase in the number of cases of Measles that were fatal, last
year the death-rate was 0.3 per 1,000 whilst this year it is 1.4
per 1,000 from this disease. I have compiled Table on page 5 on the
same basis as the one introduced into my last year's Report, with
this addition, that I have been enabled to give the results for
four years, which is more valuable that an isolated year;
this Table it will be clear to all of you is for the purpose of
comparing the mortality in this district with that of London, and
also with that of the neighbouring parishes whose class of
population and the conditions under which they live are somewhat
similar to Mile End. It will be thus seen that the Infant
Mortality of the Hamlet compares very favourably with London
as a whole and also with the adjoining districts.