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BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
The number of births registered during the year was 3953,
giving a birth-rate of 34.0 per 1000.
The birth-rate for the whole of London, during the last twelve
months was 307, and that of the twenty-seven large provincial towns
31.5 per 1000. Although the birth-rate is 3.3 per 1000 higher than
the whole of London, it is 1.6 per 1000 less than the birth-rate of
Mile End for last year 1887-8.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The number of deaths from all causes was 2022, giving a deathrate
of 17*4 per 1000, per annum. This is after making allowance for
both the proper distribution of deaths occurring in public Institutions
outside and inside the Hamlet, among their various Sanitary areas,
so that this rate is the correct rate of mortality, although the actual
number of deaths registered in the Hamlet was only 1,899 during the
twelve months. I may remark that the death-rate this year is the
lowest on record during the last ten years, and, as the following table
will show, is 0.4 per cent. less than that of the whole of London. This
is eminently satisfactory, and demonstrates that notwithstanding the
high birth-rate which prevails in this district, the healthful condition
resulting from a gravel soil, a plentiful supply of good drinking water,
a thorough main drainage, and the sanitary improvements which have
been carried out with unremitting attention, have neutralized to a
great extent, the tendency to a high death-rate, which annually
results from a high birth-rate.
death-rate in the four quarters.
Quarter ending
1888.
Mile End.
London.
28 Provincial
Towns.
June
15.6
16.9
19.1
September
15.7
16.2
17.5
December
1889.
18.9
18.9
20.5
March
19.4
19.5
22.1
Total
69.6
7.5
79.2
Average for the Year
17.4
17.8
19.10
ZYMOTIC DISEASE.
The following tables give the number of cases of Zymotic Diseases,
which have proved fatal during the last twelve months, either at the
patients' houses, or at public Institutions, and it is by intimation given
to us of their existence that we are enabled to a great extent, to
prevent their spread or recurrence; unfortunately, up to the present,
there are 110 compulsory powers to compel house owners to notify to