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lation ranged per cent. from 3 in Turville Buildings to 5 in
Sweet Apple Square, to 7 eacli in Lenham Buildings, and
Elizabeth and Providence Places, to 8 in Hare Court and
Miring's Place, on to 11 (through Scarlatina) in Accidental
Place. And until many of these miserable abodes are erased
from our map, depopulation will ever go on, and our death
rate be inevitably beyond our deserts. But when erased
their sites may be reclaimed, even as Miss Burdett Coutts
has revivified the wastes of Nova Scotia Gardens with the
noble model terraces of Columbia Square.
The summary of the foregoing tells of Bethnal Green:—
1. That the death rate of the population, estimated either
by the excess of Births over Deaths, or by Census returns,
was less than the Metropolitan rate,
2. That the Epidemic rate, on the contrary, was much in
excess.
3. That Fever was more and Consumption less destructive
than in the London returns.
4. That the fatality of Children under 5 yeara of age fell
from 83.5 per 1,000 in 1857, and from 82.6 in 1858 to 75.6
in 1859.
5. That the mean ages, total and adult, if compared with
1858, were slightly in defect, but that the mean lifetime was
2 years more.
I have next to lay before you the Sick Rolls of the Workhouse,
and of the 5 out-door Divisions. In reference thereto,
the 312 returns of the Medical Officers specify 6,510 new
cases of Disease from January 2nd to December 31st, 1859.
The gross amount is 262 less than in 1857, and 834 fewer than
in 1858. 924 were attended in the "Workhouse by Mr.
Smart, 557 in the out-door division of Mr. Moore, 1,339 in
the second part by Mr. Defriez, 1,065 in the third part by
Mr. Yandenbergh, 1,246 in the fourth part by Mr. Eagles, and