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the thirty- third
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Year 1888-1-889.
TO THE VESTRY OF THE HAMLET OF
MILE END OLD TOWN.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report
of the Vital Statistics and Sanitary Work carried out during the past
twelve months.
VITAL STATISTICS.
In large districts like our own it becomes a considerable difficulty
to estimate the changes that take place in the population. Although
there has not been a large increase in the number of houses erected
during the past few years, it will be generally admitted that a considerable
influx of foreigners and others has taken place, and in many streets
the houses of which were previously let to one family exclusively,
there are now two and sometimes three families in each house ; but
in the absence of a more frequent census, it seems to me that it is
best to estimate the present population 011 the hypothesis that the
rate of increase in the last intercensal period, has been maintained
since 1881. By this method we may take the population of Mile End
at 116,000.