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REPORT
To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Gentlemen,
I beg to hand you the Thirty-first Annual Report
for the year ending March, 1887.
VITAL STATISTICS.
THE POPULATION OF MILE END OLD TOWN.
The estimated population of Mile End Old Town is 112,000 people.
This estimate is formed on the assumption that the rate of increase of
the population was the same as during the decade 1871 to 1881, and in
the absence of a more frequent census the plan enumerated seems to be
the best.
THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
The number of births registered during the past twelve months in the
entire district was 4,028 and, estimating the population at 112,000, the
number of births per 1,000 was 35.9, as compared with 35.9 in the
previous year.
NUMBER OF DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The number of deaths belonging to the entire district have been 2,129,
giving a death-rate of 19.0 per 1,000. These statistics are after making
allowance for the proper distribution of deaths in public Institutions to
their various sanitary areas, so that they represent the acftual state of
the deaths and death-rate as correcftly as possible.
The number of deaths of Mile End parishioners which took place m
public Institutions outside the districft was 294, therefore the numher of
deaths that occurred inside the districft was 1,845, giving a death ratr of
16*5 per 1,000. The following Table shews the death-rate in Mile huu
and also that of London and 28 large Provincial towns : —