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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bethnal Green 1909
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1909 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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rates are admitted to the lying-in wards, no compensating
deduction from the registered births is required.
The whole number of 133 must therefore be added, by
which the total is raised to 4132.
Localities of these births are given in the following table:—
| Births registered in Bethnal Green Children born of Bethnal Green mothers in lying-in institutions in other Metropolitan Boroughs as under: | .... | 3,999 |
| Finsbury | 20 | 133 |
| Holborn | 1 | |
| Poplar | 2 | |
| St. Marylebone | 3 | |
| Shoreditch | 4 | |
| Stepney | 71 | |
| Various | 32 | |
| Total | 4,132 |
The addition of these 133 births in institutions to
those registered in the Borough gives a total of 4,132,
a number which is 209 fewer than the births of the
registration year 1908, which year however included
fifty-three weeks. The births exceeded the deaths by
1935.
DEATHS.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough
during the year was 2243, shewing a crude death rate
on the estimated population of 17.0. This rate is