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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 notified cases belonged to the following trades:—
| Artificial flower maker | 1 | House wives | 18 |
| Barber | 1 | Insurance agents | 2 |
| Belt maker | 1 | Interpreter | 1 |
| Boot and shoe workers | 13 | Labourers | 17 |
| Bottle stopper maker | 1 | Musician | 1 |
| Box makers | 3 | Needleworker | |
| Brush workers | 3 | Packers | 2 |
| Bus conductor | 1 | Packing case makers | 2 |
| Butcher | 1 | Paper sorter | I |
| Cabinet makers | 14 | Porters | 5 |
| Carmen | 3 | Potman | 1 |
| Charwoman | 1 | Printers | 3 |
| Cigarette makers | 3 | Saddlery | 1 |
| Clerk | 1 | Shoe black | 1 |
| Coachmen | 3 | Soldier | 1 |
| Cork cutters | 2 | Steward | 1 |
| Costermongers | 2 | Tailors | 11 |
| Decorators | 2 | Travellers | 2 |
| Domestic servant | 1 | Trimming makers | 2 |
| Enamellers | 2 | Umbrella and walking | |
| Errand boy | 1 | stick makers | 3 |
| Farrier | 1 | Upholsterers | 2 |
| Fish curer | 1 | Weaver | 1 |
| French polishers | 2 | Wood carvers and turners | 10 |
| General dealer | 1 | School children | 16 |
| Glass fitter | 1 | Infants | 4 |
| Hawkers | 9 | No information | 25 |
| Housebreaker | 1 | ||
| 210 | |||
CANCER.
The various forms of malignant disease caused 131
deaths ; all the sufferers except eight were over 25 years
of age. The estimated number of adults over this age