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THE THIRTY-SECOND
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Year 1887—8.
TO THE VESTRY OF THE HAMLET OF
MILE END OLD TOWN.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit for your perusal my Annual Report of the
Vital Statistics and Sanitary Work carried out during the last twelve
months.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
The total births registered during the year numbered 4,034, an
increase of 6 upon the previous year. Taking the population at 113,000,
which is based on the assumption that the increase of the population
has been the same as during the decade of 1871 to 1881; 4,034 births
give a birth-rate of 3 5.6 per 1000.
The following Table shews the number of births registered in each
vear for the last ten vears.
Year.
No. of Births.
Year.
No. of Births.
1878-79
4298
1883-4
4147
1879-80
4242
1884-5
4065
1880-81
4117
1885-6
40 10
1881-82
4141
1886-7
4028
1882-83
4248
1887-8
4034
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The deaths from all causes belonging to Mile End Old Town that
have occurred during the last twelve months were 2,330, giving a deathrate
of 20.6 per 1000, this is after making proper allowance for the
mortality that takes place in public Institutions outside the District
which were admitted from Mile End; and also the deaths which too
place in public Institutions inside the district, which do not belong to
this Hamlet.