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BARK 2
TO THE
BARKING TOWN
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1896.
GENTLEMEN,
I beg to submit my Report for the Urban District of Barking Town
for the year 1896.
The population, estimated up to the middle of the year, is 16,500.
Population, as per census of 1891, 14,301.
Area in acres, 3,813.
Persons per acre, 4.32 ; persons per inhabited house, 5.06.
In 1896 there were 283 deaths and 698 births. The natural increase of
population by excess of births over deaths was therefore 415.
Water Supply.—No complaint has been received by the Sanitary Department in
connection with the water supply during the year.
The Creeksmouth supply, which is from a well belonging to Lawes'
Chemical Manure Company, has not been complained of.
The other water supplies in the district have not been complained of and
no cases of disease have been traced thereto.
Cisterns.—The supply is constant, though the newer houses receive their supply via
a storage cistern.
No. of houses in the Town, 3,375. Number in 1895, 3,161.
No. of cisterns, 1,713.