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Mile End 1865
Report of the Medical Officer of Health to the Vestry of the Hamlet Mile End Old Town
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from the experience of the previous year. In 1863
the proportion of deaths to every 10,000 living in the
Hamlet was 221; and 1864, 243. Compared with the
per centage of mortality throughout the entire metropolis,
these results are not unfavourable. I have
estimated the increase of population during the year at
about 2000; the figures for 1862 being 76,825; for 1860
79,124; and for 1864, 81,300. The principal increase
in the population has taken place in the North and East
Wards; in the latter the number of inhabitants to the
acre having risen from 68 in 1863 to 73 in 1864.
The per centage of mortality has not varied greatly
in either of the quarters of the year, though, as usual,
we find the first and last quarters show the highest
figures.
The next table gives us the weekly averages of death
from the year 1857 to that of 1864 inclusive. This is
TABLE III.