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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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In the registration sub-districts of the Borough t lie
birth rates were as under. For purposes of comparison,
the death rate of each district is also shewn.

Table: TABLE G.

TABLE G.

Sub-district.Birth Rate.Death Rate.
North East30.616.3
South West32.216.5

Table: TABLE H Marriages.

TABLE H Marriages.

First Quirter140
Second Quarter244
Third Quarter241
Fourth Quarter287
Total912

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These figures indicate a marriage rate of 13.9 to
every thousand persons, as against 14.6 in the County
of London.
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
Nearly one fourth of the total deaths at all ages
were those of infants under one year. These numbered
534, and form an infantile death rate of 129.25 per