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Diarrhœa, 2 of Erysipelas, 2 of Carbuncle, 10 of Catarrh,
and 34 of various kinds. Besides the above, 18 others were
attended at the Guardian Asylum on the Green. As the
ratio of deaths is annually to the sickness as 1 to 28, the illness,
General and Pauper, of Bethnal Green would be 68,376
attacks.
I have now to record the Sanitary Progress of the year,
which I beg to preface with the annexed remarks :—In the
year 1838, when the population of Bethnal Green was little
above 70,500 persons, 2254 deaths occurred, and 1 out of
every 104 fell by diseases of the epidemic class. When however
in 1858 the people amounted to nearly half as many
more, the deaths numbered but 2442, and the epidemics were
fatal to 1 only out of every 167. These numbers consequently
represent the rates on life as Bethnal Green then was
and at present is. Entire streets are no longer as at that
time swamps, and though from increase of people the area to
each one is smaller, the climatorial conditions have so much
improved that instead of 1 inhabitant dying annually (as in
1838) out of every 35,* the proportion in 1858 was but 1 in
43. 3 blocks of Sewers, constructed since my last Report,
will uphold and advance the vantage ground. By their construction
the sanitary condition of the surrounding neighbourhoods
will be improved, and the value of the dwellings
in 67 streets increased. Favoured with information by
your Surveyor and Inspector, whom I very cordially beg to
thank, I have now the pleasure of specifying "the numbers
of houses drained and completed " in a few " of the several
streets where Sewers have been constructed since September
1857." Thus, omitting the streets where less than 30 entries
were made, the houses drained in Anglesea, Bath and Essex
Streets, numbered respectively 31; in Abbey Street 32; in
* " Annual Rate of Mortality per 100 in Bethnal Green 2.873," and " of the
Epidemic Class 0.959."—Second Annual Report of the Registrar General, p. 166.