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Mile End 1867

The eleventh annual report of the Vestry of the Hamlet Mile End Old Town in the county of Middlesex

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TABLE II.

Deaths in Mile End Old Town from all Zymotic Diseases, viz., Fever, Small Pox, Scarlatina, Measles, Diptheria, Diarrhœa, Dysentery, Whooping Cough, Croup, Erysipelas, in year ending March, 1867, and in four previous years ending—

March, 1863March, 1864March, 1865March, 1866March, 1867Average Four previous years.
477522507421349481

As I have already stated, zymotic diseases are the
best test of the sanitary condition of any place where
any large numbers of people are massed together,
hence, this table is both gratifying and interesting.

TABLE III. Annual death rates from all causes (and from zymotic diseases) per 1,000 persons living in Mile End Old Town, and in each of the five Metropolitan districts, for the two quarters ending March andJune, 1867.

Estimated Population, 1867.All causesZymotic Diseases.All causes.Zymotic Diseases.
Mile End Old Town 85,00022.802.818.442.4
For Metropolis—
West Districts 600,00022.342.5617.02.08
North „ 710,00026.714.4620.03.24
Central „ 320,00031.873.9724.03.08
East (including M.E.O.I.) 635,00026.444.020.373.2
South Districts 820,00027.443.421.2.8
Mean of Districts26.963.420.512.8