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REPORT,
Town Hall,
Edmonton,
March 19th, 1899.
To the Chairman & Members of the Edmonton Urban District Council.
Gentlemen ,
I have the honour to present you with the report on the Vital
Statistics and Sanitary Work of your District for the year ended
December 31st, 1898, being my Eighth Report as Medical Officer of
Health.
Vital Statistics.
Statistical tables according to the forms prescribed by the Local
Government Board, "A" of deaths, and "B" of population, births, and
new cases of sickness," have been prepared and are attached to the
Report.
Population.
The population of the District, exclusive of that of the two Union
Workhouses situated therein, was by census 1881, 13,065 ; and by
census 1891, 23,473. The population in June, 1898, would, if the same
rate of increase hold good, be 35,836.
This calculation has been made in the same manner as in my
former Reports. I should say that when the next census comes to be
taken, it will be found that the rate of increase of population of the
district will exceed rather than be less than that of the last inter-censal
period.
The building of new houses proceeds with great rapidity, and
during the year 1898 462 houses were occupied for the first time.
The calculations in the succeeding paragraphs have been made
from the data afforded by the tables.