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period of last year, yet the general ratio of addition appears
to be very similar. In one quarter of the year 1860, it may
be remembered, that the births outnumbered the deaths in
one of the quarters in the proportion of 2 to 1; this, as will
presently be shown, does not comprise the total increase of
population, the addition being composed of fresh adult inhabitants,
most likely removed from some of the more thickly
populated parts near the water side, as well as Whitechapel.
The population of Mile End Old Town has become increased
since this time last year, by from 1500 to 2000 persons, or,
to be as exact as a computation founded partly on probabilities
can enable us to be, the number appears to be 1825.
If the 1825 be added to the population as ascertained by
the Census, the rate of death per 1000 per annum will be
lower than it was in 1860, but only by a small number.
The rate for Mile End Old Town per annum to every
1000 persons living in 1860, was 20.9.
Without making any addition to the population as shown
by the Census tables in 1861, it was 21, but when the
addition is made, the rate becomes reduced to 20.7.
In London the death rate per 1000 per annum, was in
1860, 21.9, and in 1861, 23 1 per 1000.
In the Eastern Division, containing Shoreditch, Whitechapel,
St. George in the East, Stepney, Bethnal Green,
Mile End, Bow, and Poplar, the rate was in 1860, 23.2, and
in 1861, 24 per thousand.