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Englishwoman, in whose minds and memories there will ever dwell,
engraved as on tablets of gold, in letters of silver, the hallowed and
beloved name of Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts.
The Great Eastern Railway Company have ceased to encroach upon
our house-room, and some few new houses have been built upon land not
hitherto occupied by dwellings, so that, with the increase of population,
our over-crowding remains much as heretofore, and the good that was
expected to be derived from the "Public Health Act of 1866" has never
been realized in this Parish, nor, to my knowledge, in any other ; and
the time having elapsed for which the "Lodging-House Regulations"
received the sanction of the Secretary of State, no further application has
been made, and the law has become a dead letter.
The average deaths for the whole of London in 1867 was 23 per 1000,
or one person died of every 43 living. For Bethnal Green they are
exactly the same, one death in 5.4 being from Zymotic Diseases.
In 1868 the average deaths for the whole of London was 23.6 per 1000,
or one person died of every 41.7 living.
For Bethnal Green they were 24.3 per 1000, or one person died of every
41.3 living—one death in 4.7 being from Zymotic Disease. This shews
our death rate to be slightly above the average for the whole of London ;
or, in other words, there was ¾ of a person to the 1000 died in Bethnal
Green more than the average for the whole of London.
The births registered in Bethnal Green in 1868 were—Boys, 2525;
Girls, 2408 : total, 4933, being 1 birth to every 24.5 persons living in
1868, against 1 birth to every 23 persons living in 1867. For the whole
of London the rate was, in 1868, 1 birth to every 27 persons living. In
1867 it was exactly the same, so that our birth rate was far above the
average for the whole of London in both years.
PAUPER ILLNESS.
The following is the number of new cases attended during the year by
the District Medical Officers :—
District No.1
Mr. Massingham
2735 Cases.
„ 2
Mr. Defriez
969 „
„ 3
Dr. Burgess
701 „
„ 4
Dr. Richards
2180 „
„ 5
Dr. Welch
2091
„ 6
Dr. Sarvis
626 ,,
„ 7
Dr. Brotherton
990 „
Total
10,292 Cases.