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have been increasing our populaton the last ten years is by
several families occupying one house that used to be inhabited
by only one family; this is much to be regretted seeing that
the majority of these houses consist of not more than five rooms
each.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
The Births registered during the 52 weeks ending December
31st were 4,035 as the following table will show. The Births
for the year 1891 were 4,109 giving a birth-rate equal to 38.2
per 1,000 so that it will be seen that this year has been a
normal one as far as Births are concerned.

DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The number of Deaths from all causes registered during the
year 1892 was 2,489, this number is arrived at after making the
deduction of those Deaths that occurred in our district but who
belong to other parishes, and including those Deaths that
occurred in the various Public Institutions outside our Parish
but belong to Mile End Old Town. This number is equivalent
to a Death-Rate of 23.0 per 1,000 per annum that of the
Metropolis being 20.2, so that our Death-Rate is 0.8 per 1,000
higher than London taken as a whole; it will be noticed that
about 200 more Deaths occurred in our district than in the year
1891 but this number is so insignificant that one cannot possibly
account for it; from the table below it will be noticed that we
compare very favourably with other East End districts and
seeing that a large majority of our population belong to the
poorer classes we may consider our Death-Rate of 23.0 per
1,000 per annum very satisfactory.