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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
I beg to lay before you in this report the vital statistics of
Bethnal Green for the fifty-two weeks included in the registration
year 1892.
The usual tables will be found in the Appendix, but it will be
noticed that Table III. has been somewhat modified, in deference
to the requirements of the Local Government Board, and now
shews, in addition to the deaths at various groups of ages, the
deaths in each Sub-district. The tables formulated by the Local
Government Board require Public Institutions to be regarded as
separate localities, and the registered deaths in each to be separately
recorded; but I do not consider this a suitable plan for Bethnal
Green as its adoption would entail either a double set of statistics
or a break in the continuity of my reports, which have been prepared
on similar forms for the past seventeen years.* In my
opinion the forms of the Local Government Board, though
excellent for the country, are inapplicable to a Metropolitan
District, as here we have an arrangement with the General Register
Office, by which we receive information of all deaths of inhabitants
of Bethnal Green, who die in extra-parochial hospitals. I include
these deaths in my figures and allocate them to the Sub-districts
wherein the deceased persons resided during life. The deaths in
the Workhouse, the Victoria Park Hospital, and the Mildmay
Mission Hospital I treat in a similar manner, but I entirely
exclude all deaths of non-parishioners who have died in these
* Since this was written the Vestry has decided to place the Sanitary Staff under
the Local Government Board, and when this is accomplished the use of the tables
referred to will be compulsory in future reports.