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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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living in Bethnal Green is 57,500; on this number the
cancer mortality is at the rate of 2.2 per thousand.
The following list shews the organs and parts of the body chiefly affected by cancerous disease :—
| Stomach. Liver asd Pancreas | 43 |
| Female Organs of Generation | 16 |
| Tongue and Mouth | 10 |
| Brain | 10 |
| Rectum | 10 |
| Intestines | 10 |
| Larynx and (Esophagus | 8 |
| Lung and Mediastinum | 7 |
| Female Breast | 6 |
| Prostate and Male Bladder | 3 |
INQUESTS.
The inquests held numbered 260. Seventy-nine
persons died violent deaths, of whom fifteen committed
suicide.
SUICIDES.
A woman, aged 43, hanged herself in a cell at Bethnal
Green Road Police Station; the wife of a shoemaker,
aged 74, a hair pad maker, aged 64, and a boot laster,
aged 41, also hanged themselves; a coal merchant, aged
54, strangled himself; the wife of a wood carver, aged
63, starved herself to death; a painter, aged 53, cut his
throat; a chairmaker, aged 57, drowned himself in the
river Lea ; and three men and two women took poison.
HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING ACT, 1909.
In my report for the year 1909 there appeared notes
on the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909, by