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Orsett 1894
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orsett]
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Orsett Bural Sanitary District.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT, i894.
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
1894 at 15,375, the increase since Census being as follows:—
Chadwell-St.-Mary and West Tilbury District. .401
West and Little Thurrocks 236
Aveley and Stafford 200
Stanford-le-Hope 190
Decrease in East Tilbury and Mucking 30
Decrease in Chadwell - St. - Mary round
Tilbury Docks, 1893-4, of 200
Number of
Births and
Deaths Registered
The number of Births registered during the Dear was
491, of which 238 were boys and 253 girls; the number of
Deaths, 191.