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A quinquennial census would obviously be of much value in
giving us more accurate knowledge of the precise population.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
The number of Births registered during the year was 4,006,
being 32 more in number than last year, giving a Birth-rate
equal to 35.1 per 1,000. The table No. 1, shows by comparison
the Births and Birth-rate for the past ten years.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The mortality from all causes was 2,496 giving a Death-rate of
22.3 per 1000 per annum, that of the Metropolis being 20.3 for
the same period, from table II. it will be seen that the above
deaths include every death that has taken place of a Mile End
Parishioner outside the district, whether Hospitals, Infirmaries, or
Asylums, as well as those that have occurred in the district
excepting those in the City of London Union, Bow Road,
whose inmates belong to the City and not to Mile End. The
death-rate 22.3, is the highest that has been recorded in Mile
End for some six years, it should be explained that this is the first
year that deaths in the Extra Metropolitan Asylums have been
recorded in these reports, and if we consider the deaths that
have taken place in Public Institutions outside the district, the
mortality actually taking place in the district, would be reduced
to something like 20.0 per 1,000. This high death rate is not
due to any appreciable excess of zymotic diseases the deathrate
from which is 27 per 1,000, that of last year was 2.3 per
1,000; but to an excess of deaths over which we as a sanitary
body have 110 control, as for example diseases of the respiratory
organs, etc.; during the first quarter of the year, there were 150
more deaths than the same quarter in the previous year, and was
largely due to the severe weather as also the influenza epidemic,
which was most trying to a population such as our own.
Table I.
COMPARISON OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS
IN SUCCESSIVE YEARS.
Years.
Births.
Birth-rate
per 1,000
inhabitants.
Deaths
from all
causes.
Death-rate
per 1,000
inhabitants.
l88l-2.
4141
37.64
2371
21.55
1882-3.
4248
38.24
2296
24.5
1883-4.
4147
37.7
223O
20.2
1884-5.
4065
35.6
2582
22.6
1885-6.
4O1O
35.9
2232
19.9
1886-7.
4028
35.9
2129
19.0
1887-8.
4034
35.6
2330
20.6
1888-9.
3953
34.0
2022
17.4
1889.
3964
34.0
2127
18.0
1890.
4006
35.1
2496
22.3