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from the same groups of diseases, but calculated upon the gross
population. I should have very much preferred in this instance to
retain my old form, as mortality rates at well-marked groups of ages
thus calculated are most valuable sanitary statistics. I endeavoured
to get my own form adopted by the Council of the Society, but the
opinion of the members was against me, as the mortality rate of young
children would have to be calculated upon a population capable of
being only approximately estimated. The Council therefore decided
that the table should shew infantile mortality calculated upon the
registered births, as being so much more exact.
POPULATION.
I estimate the population of this parish at 128,000. This figure is
arrived at by the addition to the numbers furnished by the census in
March, 1881, of five-fortieths of the decennial increase of the years
1871 to 1881. This is for the purpose of raising the population to the
middle of 1882, and the increment is that of the five quarters (one
year and three months) which have elapsed between that period and
the last census.
TABLE A.
No. of Houses, Workshops, &c., in the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green
DIVISIONS.
COLLECTORS.
Inhabited Houses.
Workshops separate
from Houses.
Saw Mills and
Timber Yards.
Schools.
Eastward
W. I. Shenton
4976
32
13
13
West Ward
(North Division)
H. Liebrecht
2618
84
10
7
West Ward
(South Division)
W. N. Eagles
1664
10
9
5
North Ward
E. S. Smith
3020
5461
18
174
21
5
South ward
H. J. Bliss
3
9
Total, 1882
17,739
318
56
39
Total, 1881
17,739
318
56
39