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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 1910

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1910 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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Table: * Since this report was presented the results of the recent census have been published, and are given below:—

* Since this report was presented the results of the recent census have been published, and are given below:—

Metropolitan Boroughs:—
Battersea168,907167,793dec. 0.66
Bermondsey130,760125,960dec. 3.67
Bethnal Green129,680128,282dec. 1.08
Camberwell259,339261,357inc. 0.78
Chelsea73,84266,404dec. 10.07
Deptford110,398109,498dec. 0.82
Finsbury101,46387,976dec. 13.29
Fulham137,289153,325inc. 11.68
Greenwich95,77095,977inc. 0.22
Hackney219,110222,587inc. 1.59
Hammersmith112,239121,603inc. 8.34
Hampstead81,94285,510inc. 4.35
Holborn59,40549,336dec. 16.95
Islington334,991327,423dec. 2.26
Kensington176,628172,402dec. 2.39
Lambeth301,895298,126dec. 1.25
Lewisham127,495160,843inc. 26.16
Paddington143,976142,576dec. 0.97
Poplar168,822162,449dec. 3.77
St. Marylebone133,301118,221dec. 11.31
St. Pancras235,317218,453dec. 7.17
Shoreditch118,637111,463dec. 6.05
Southwark206,180191,951dec. 6.90
Stepney298,600280,024dec. 6.22
Stoke Newington51,24750,683dec. 1.10
Wandsworth231,922311,402inc. 34.27
Westminster, City of183,011160,277dec. 12.42
Woolwich117,178121,403inc. 3.61
City of London26,92319,657dec. 26.99
Administrative County of London4,536,2674,522,961dec. 0.29
Outer Ring2,045,1352,730,002inc. 33.49

Table: Instead of increasing, as was anticipated, the population of Bethnal Green decreased at the rate of 1.08 per cent. Amended statistics, calculated upon this diminished population, are given below:—

Instead of increasing, as was anticipated, the population of Bethnal Green decreased at the rate of 1.08 per cent. Amended statistics, calculated upon this diminished population, are given below:—

Death Rate15.51
Birth Rate32.81
Marriage Rate15.71
Zymotic Death Rate1.42
Phthisical Death Rate1.37