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Bethnal Green 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE 1.
Shelving the Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths, and Marriages
for the year 1891, and ten years preceding.
GROSS NUMBERS.
The Year
Estimated
Population.
No. of
Inhabited
Houses.
Marriages.
Registered
Births.
Corrected number of
Deaths.
Deaths
In
Public
Inatittutlons.
Total
all
Ages.
Under
One
Year.
Under
Five
Years.
1891
129,134
17,109
1856
4998
3282
827
1449
707
1881
127,006
17,739
2603
5237
3054
803
1504
515
1882
127,685
17,739
2602
5256
3094
886
1596
486
1883
128,370
17,739
2602
5310
3072
853
1576
516
1884
129,055
17,739
2581
5475
3009
862
1523
512
1885
129,055
17,739
2532
5158
2850
750
1213
534
1886
129,895
18,493
2437
5194
3040
888
1533
532
1887
129,895
18,493
2415
4989
2917
814
1412
598
1888
130,500
18,668
2282
4936
2958
770
1443
556
1889
131,000
18,454
2314
4939
2708
718
1311
561
1890
129,134
17,109
2015
4811
3199
791
1402
641
Average of ten years,
1881 to 1800.
129,159
17,991
2438
5130
2990
813
1451
545
NOTES.
1. Population at census, 1891—129,134.
2. Area in Acres, 755.
3. Average number of persons in each house at census, 7'5.