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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 1911

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1911 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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6. A chair maker, aged 30, of Ames Street, poisoned
himself with oxalic acid, and died in Victoria Park Road.
7. A girl, aged 5 years, of Margaret's Place,
knocked down and killed by a motor omnibus in the
Strand.

Table: TOTALS:—

TOTALS:—

Residents.
Total deaths registered2,345
Sudden deaths outside the Borough7
Deaths in Institutions outside the Borough391
2,743

Table: Non-Residents.

Non-Residents.

Sudden deaths of strangers in Bethnal Green5
Deaths of strangers in Bethnal Green Institutions422
427
2,316

Table: TABLE B.Public Institutions, situated outside the Borough, into which Bethnal Green residents have been received and where they have subsequently died:—

TABLE B.

Public Institutions, situated outside the Borough, into which Bethnal Green residents have been received and where they have subsequently died:—

Babies' Home, Shoreditch3
Banstead Asylum7
Bromley Sick Asylum2
Cancer Hospital, Chelsea2
Caterham Asylum3