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Bethnal Green 1909
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1909 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
REPORT
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit for your consideration my thirtyfourth
Annual Report on the vital statistics and sanitary
condition of the Borough of Bethnal Green. The
report covers exactly fifty-two weeks, as the Registration
year commenced on January 3rd, 1909, and terminated
on Saturday, January 1st, 1910.
POPULATION.
The official estimate of the population of the
Borough in the middle of the year 1909, is 131,316
persons, an increase of 250 over the previous year.
This figure is arrived at by assuming that the rate of
increase during the last nine years has been identical
with that of the decennium immediately preceding
the year 1901 when the actual figure was found by the
census enumeration to be 129,680.