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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Mile End 1865
Report of the Medical Officer of Health to the Vestry of the Hamlet Mile End Old Town
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among infants is in accordance with the experience of
the Registrar General, and does not differ much in
ratio from the figures of the mortality of the principal
towns. The gradual increase in numbers year by year
is strictly in accordance with the increase in the population
; and we may fairly congratulate ourselves on the
fact that up to the present time the mortality of our
Hamlet does not compare unfavorably with that of the
whole metropolis.
The following table gives us still further details of
the mortality of 1864; for in it w.e can compare the
whole number of deaths with those which were the
the result of the six principal zymotic diseases. Here,
TABLE Y.
| Wards. | Deaths from all causes. | Deaths from Zymotic Diseases. | Or in the proportion of 1 to 2. |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | ||
again, there is comparatively little to remark either in
exultation or regret; as the figures, though higher than
might have calculated are only such as are due to, and