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REPORT.
to the
Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Gentlemen,
In this Report, I purpose to review briefly, the proceedings
of the health department of the Vestry, during
the year ending March, 1867 ; to notice the present
sanitary condition of the Hamlet, and to make passing
allusion to, or comments upon, any subject of interest
to the public health. I have prepared tables in a way
which I consider will give you, at a glance, a clear insight
as to the births and deaths for the year, compared
with previous years, and the relative rates of births
and deaths compared with other places. I have prepared
a special table for deaths from zymotic diseases,
as it is by their variation, rise or fall, that we can best
judge of the results produced by our sanitary measures.
At each meeting of the Committee, I have presented
and read Reports upon the current mortality and sanitary
condition of the Hamlet, upon subjects continually
arising of importance to the general health—such as
nuisances dangerous to health, or supposed to be so,
and upon numerous special matters, which it is neither
necessary nor desirable, in all cases to particularize. I
will only allude, in the course of this report, to those of
greatest general interest. By the Report of the Inspector
of Nuisances, appended to this, you will see