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These remarks will introduce us to the particular
state of the sanitary condition of the Hamlet as will be
shown by a series of tables mainly founded upon the mortality
and the information elicited in connection with it.
It will be seen from the figures of the following table, that
in the year last past, there were in the Hamlet of Mile
End Old Town 3193 births to 1977 deaths, showing an
excess of births over deaths of no fewer than 1216.

These figures do not compare unfavourably with those of
former years. The deaths in 1861 were 1556 and the
births 2719; in 1862 the deaths numbered 1836 and
the births 2769; and in 1863 the deaths were 1746 and
and the births 3015. The gradual increase in both
births and deaths must, of course, be attributed to the
increase of population—there being now, according to
the nearest estimates, about 8000 more persons living
in the Hamlet than there were in 1861, when the Government
census was taken.
In the next table we have the details of the mortality
of the Hamlet. Here again, we find but a slight variation