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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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The sanitary conveniences provided at the stations
in the Borough for the use of ladies have been
periodically inspected, and have on each occasion been
found in reasonably good condition.
I am, Sir,
Yours obediently,
A. K. HARRIS
(Sanitary Inspector).
DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
The deaths of young children aged less than five
years, including infants, numbered 743; they form 37.1
per cent. of the deaths at all ages. This is equivalent
to a rate of 41.3 per thousand of the estimated population
of young children. With a view to ascertaining the
effect of an excessive infant mortality upon subsequent
child life, the following table has been constructed. It
shews the yearly death rates of children aged over one
year and under five, calculated upon the estimated
population of young children, as compared with infantile
mortality rates calculated upon the births in each year.