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Report for the previous year, it will be seen that in the
number of deaths recorded by the District Registrars there
is an increase of 280.
The Tables appended, as in former Reports, contain all
the essential portion of the Report, which I now beg to
submit to you; but they will scarcely go so far as to fully
explain the causes of the increased mortality.
Zymotic disease is generally considered as in a great
measure preventible; or, if not preventible, capable of considerable
control by sanitary improvement and discipline.
In the year just past I am sorry to report to you that the
latter consequences only have followed the unabated attention
given by those appointed for the purpose, to the
improvement of the condition of the Hamlet. Nearly 200
of the whole number of increased deaths are to be attributed
to the epidemics from which we have suffered, namely,
Fever and Measles. It may occasion surprise that Small
Pox is not added as one of the most prominent of contagious
diseases; but, in fact, in Mile End we have suffered less
from that disease than have most other London parishes or
districts. Indeed, the deaths registered from Small Pox are
less in number by one than those of the previous year.
This subject is only now mentioned in passing; it will be
reverted to in explanation of Table No. 6.
If we may venture to estimate the population by the
number of houses newly occupied, an increase of inhabitants
must be acknowledged, greater than that which, according
to usual calculation, might be anticipated. The excess of
the number of births over that of the deaths does not,
indeed, point in that direction; but adults, and not infants,
occupy the newly built houses, and they must come from