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Bethnal Green 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE I.
Sharing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths and
Marriages for the year 1892, and ten gears preceding.
GROSS NUMBERS.
The Year.
Estimated
Population
No. of
Inhabited
Houses.
Marriages.
Registered
Births.
Corrected number
of Deaths.
Deaths
In
Public
Institutions.
Total
ail
Ages.
Under
One
Year.
Under
Five
Years.
1892
127,040
1447
4911
2984
779
1459
588
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
1891
129,134
17,109
1856
4998
3282
827
1449
707
Average of 10 years,
1882 to 1891
129,372
17,928
2363
5106
3012
815
1445
564
NOTES.
1. Population at census, 1892—129,134.
2. Area in acres, 755.
3. Average number of persons in each house at census, 7.5.