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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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TABLE G. Quarterly Mortality for the Borough of Bethnal Green
| 1911. | Estimated Population in the middle of 1905. | Births. | All Causes | Enteric Fever. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhœa and Enteritis under2 years). | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Deaths of Infants under one year of age. | All Causes. | Enteric Fever. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhœa and Enteritis (under 2 years). | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Deaths under 1 year to 1000 Births Registered. |
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| Borough of Bethnal Green. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| April 1st | 131,855 | 1,024 | 676 | 2 | — | 72 | 1 | 26 | 7 | 10 | 58 | 134 | 20.6 | 0.06 | — | 2.19 | 0.03 | 0.79 | 0.21 | 0.30 | 1.76 | 131 |
| July 1st | 128,247 | 991 | 490 | — | — | 39 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 62 | 97 | 15.3 | — | 1.22 | 0.03 | 0.41 | 0.19 | 0.22 | 1.94 | 98 | |
| September 30th | 128,247 | 949 | 642 | — | — | 16 | — | 8 | 3 | 211 | 41 | 242 | 20.1 | — | — | 0.50 | — | 0.25 | 0.09 | 6.60 | 1.28 | 255 |
| December 30th | 128,247 | 902 | 511 | 1 | — | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 47 | 137 | 16.0 | 0.03 | — | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.16 | 0.63 | 1.47 | 152 |
| 129,149 | 3,866 | 2,319 | 3 | — | 130 | 4 | 49 | 21 | 248 | 208 | 610 | 18.0 | 0.02 | — | 1.00 | 0.03 | 0.38 | 0.16 | 1.94 | 1.61 | 159 |