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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
The deaths in Mile End Old Town in the year
1862 numbered 1836—895 males and 941 females.
For several years past it has happily been in my power,
in my annual reports, to congratulate the Vestry upon the
low state of the mortality of the Hamlet. So low, indeed,
has it been on certain occasions, that I have been frequently
induced to question the accuracy of my arithmetic; and,
when that has been proved to have been correct, the desirable
condition of the public health has been regarded by
me as exceptional, and too good to continue at the same
rate. And hence I have anticipated a less favourable return
for the year following.
The accuracy of my calculations as to the ratio of
mortality in the Hamlet is now proved. The expected
augmentation in the death rate has now arrived. By comparing
the figures here given with those contained in my