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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
It is my duty in this Annual Report to place before you
the Vital Statistics of the Parish for the registration year 1884, which
terminated on the Third day of January last.
The year includes fifty-three weeks, but in order that the Statistics
may compare upon equal terms with those of previous years, I have
shewn the birth, death, and marriage rates for a year of average
length ; that is to say, I have reduced the actual numbers of the births,
deaths, and marriages by one-fifty-third part, and have calculated the
rates upon the new figures so obtained.
POPULATION AND DENSITY.
I estimate the population of Bethnal Green for the middle of the
year 1884, at 129,055, and as this gives a birth rate almost identical
with that of the year in which the last census was taken, it is
probably fairly correct, as birth rates are known to be subject to very
small variations.
The area of the district is 755 acres, of which about seventeen are
covered with water.
Tho number of inhabited houses is 17,833; this corresponds to a
population of 7.2 persons to each house, and 171 to each acre. These
figures are almost identical with those of the previous year.
The following table which has been prepared from the rate books
shews the distribution of the houses, workshops, and factories in the
several wards of the parish.
This is only an approximate return of the dwellings actually in occupation,
as the compound householder exercises a somewhat disturbing
influence upon the numbers; since by the operation of the practice
of compounding for rates many of the holders of small property pay
upon a yearly average estimate of the value of their property, and are
rated to the same amount whether their houses are full or empty.