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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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Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908.
Total notified during 1911 200
From Bethnal Green Infirmary and
Workhouse 166
From their homes 23
From other Institutions 11
Up to the end of the year I had received information
that out of this total of 200 cases 75 had proved
fatal.
The notified cases belonged to the following trades:—
| Baker | 1 | Labourers | 13 |
| Bookbinder | 1 | Motor worker | 1 |
| Boot and shoe workers | 7 | Packer | 1 |
| Box maker | 1 | Painter | 1 |
| Brush worker | 1 | Paperhanger | 1 |
| Butcher | 1 | Porters | 2 |
| Cabinet makers | 16 | Potmen | 4 |
| Cardboard cutter | 1 | Printers | 5 |
| Carmen | 6 | Rag sorters | 3 |
| Charwomen | 5 | Scavenger | 1 |
| Chimney sweeps | 2 | Seamen | 2 |
| Cigarette maker | 1 | Stoker | 1 |
| Clerk | 1 | Tailors | 8 |
| Costermongers | 3 | Tie maker | 1 |
| Domestic servant | 1 | Tobacco moulder | 1 |
| Dress and mantle makers | 2 | Tooth-brush maker | 1 |
| Fancy leather worker | 1 | Traveller | 1 |
| Feather curler | 1 | Trunk finisher | 1 |
| Fish frier | 1 | Upholsterers | 4 |
| French polishers | 3 | Warehousemen | 3 |
| Glass beveller | 1 | Window cleaner | 1 |
| Hawkers | 8 | Infant | 1 |
| Housebreaker | 1 | School children | 11 |
| House wives | 20 | No information | 46 |
| 200 |