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the thirty-seventh
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For the Year 1892.
To the Vestry of the
Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you for your
perusal my Annual Report of the Vital Statistics together
with the result of the Public Health work which has been
carried out during the past twelve months in this Hamlet.
Under the Order of the Local Government Board my Report to
you is for the period from January to December 1892, so that
this Report will be in advance of General Report of the Vestry.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The Vital Statistics of any district, in order to be of use for
comparison with statistics of past years, must be in ratio to the
population, as intercensal periods are of such long intervals as
ten years, it is difficult to form a true and accurate basis to
work on, but as it was only last year that the census was taken
we can judge fairly accurately our population. I estimate the
population of Mile End Old Town in the middle of the year
1892 as 107,811, this calculation is worked on the same basis as
that of the Registrar General by logarithms, and is 248 more
than the population taken at the time of the census.
It is a well-known fact that our present population will vary
but little, seeing that the whole of the district is built over, there
being at the present time very little available land eligible, or
that is likely to be used for building purposes, the only way we