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the thirty-sixth
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Year 1891.
To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my Annual Report on
the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Hamlet, for the
year 1891. In doing so, I would draw your attention to the
fact that this year the vital statistics have an especial significance,
inasmuch as 1 am enabled to lay before you the exact population
at the present time, and from which the statistics in the following
Report are based.
POPULATION.
Before dealing with either the rate of Births, or the rate of
Mortality, it is necessary that one should have an accurate
knowledge of the population of a district; owing to the census
being taken but once in ten years, in the interval we can make
only an approximate estimate, and that has found to be very
far from correct during the last decade in the various Sanitary
districts in London.
In our own district the population had very far from increased
in the same proportion during the last ten years, as it did in the
ten years from 1871 to 1881, as the following table will show:
population compared as to increase during
last forty years.
1861 to 1871 increase 20,082.
1871 to 1881 „ 12,427.
1881 to 1891 „ 1,992.