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Orsett Bural Sanitary District.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT, 1893.
General Sanitary Condition of District.
Extent of
District
The Orsett Rural Sanitary District consists of the whole
of the Orsett Poor Law Union, with the exception of the
parish of Grays Thurrock.
Population
It contains 39,803 acres, and a population—Census,
1891— of 14,378. I estimate the population to middle of
1893 at 15,359, the increase since Census being as follows:—
Chadwell-St.-Mary and West Tilbury District. 501
West and Little Thurrocks 200
Aveley and Stifford 160
Stanford-le-Hope 150
Decrease in East Tilbury and Mucking 30
Decrease in Chadwell - St. - Mary round
Tilbury Docks, this year, of 100
Number of
Births and
Deaths Registered
The number of Births registered during the year was
4-91, of which 249 were boys and 242 girls; the number of
Deaths, 261.