Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the District for the year 1894.

  • Hamlet of Mile End Old Town (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the District for the year 1894. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT of the MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, FOR THE YEAR 1894. To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old. Town. Gentlemen, The year 1894 having closed it now becomes my duty as your Medical Officer of Health to issue an Annual Report of the health of the Hamlet for this period, in accordance with the order of the Local Government Board under which I hold my appointment. For the information of the many new members of the Board I may mention that I have had the honour of presenting to the Vestry eight previous Annual Reports. In drawing out an official statement of this kind it is of the greatest possible moment that the statistics of population, by which all deductions are made, should be as accurate as possible; I find that in a number of Reports previous to the last census the population of Mile End was much over-estimated. That the population of our Hamlet has increased by leaps and bounds it is only necessary to refer to the figures of the five last census which were as follows: 1861—73,064; 1871—93,146; 1881—105,573; 1891—107,565; it will be seen by this data that during the last ten years the increase was not so great as any ten years previous a result no doubt due to the fact that the whole area of our dis trict has now been built over. The population for the middle of the year 1894 is estimated as 108,242 this calculation is arrived at by logarithims, a very accurate method during intercensal periods, and on these figures the Rates of Mortality are based in the ensuing pages.