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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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CANCER.
The various forms of malignant disease caused
120 deaths; all the sufferers except four were over
25 years of age, the estimated number of adults over
this age living in Bethnal Green being 51,806. On
this number, the cancer mortality is at the rate of
2.2 per thousand.
The following list shows the organs and parts of the body chiefly affected by cancerous disease:—
| Stomach, Liver and Pancreas | 46 |
| Female organs of generation | 12 |
| Intestines | 12 |
| Rectum | 9 |
| Tongue and Mouth | 7 |
| Larynx and Œsophagus | 7 |
| Lung and Mediastinum | 7 |
| Female Breast | 4 |
| Prostrate and Male Bladder | 2 |
INQUESTS.
The Inquests held numbered 277. Ninety-nine
persons died violent deaths, of whom 13 committed
suicide. In two instances, verdicts of manslaughter
were returned.
SUICIDES.
These numbered 13:—The wife of a stationer's
porter, aged 61, tried to poison herself with turpentine,
and then hanged herself. A cabdriver, aged 40, also
hanged himself. A tailor's machinist, aged 20,