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Bethnal Green 1859

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green, Parish of St. Matthew ]

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As heretofore, the ratio of the Town stood the highest; that
of the Hackney Road the lowest of the four. In comparative
longevity the mean lifetime ranked 1st, in the Green; 2nd, in
the Hackney Road; 3rd, in the Church, and 4th, in the
Town; bat after the 20th year, the average age reached its
maximum in the Green, was less in the Hackney Road,
lower in the Town, and at its minimum in the Church. Tables
4 and 9 contrast the Sub-District Ages, and the mortality in
each. Severally the per centage on every 100 deaths was in
the Hackney Road, 1.705; in the Church, 1.919 ; in the
Town, 2.236; and in the Green, (including the Workhouse,
Lunatic Asylum, Consumption Hospital, &c.,) 2 600.
Rated by Epidemics, 1 death out of every 3.1 occurred in
Sub-District 1; 1 in 5.4 in No. 2; 1 in 3.3 in No. 3; and 1
in 2.6 in No. 4. To every myriad of population, the rates
by the Zymotic, Tubercular, and Respiratory Diseases are
seen at a glance below:—
Deaths to 10,000 Living
Sub-Districts
Zymotic Tubercular Respiratory
Class Class Class
Hackney Road 62 28 28
Green 55 56 42
Church 62 36 28
Town 93 39 29
Arranged in their scale of sequence, the deaths below the age
of 5 were to each 10,000—91, 103, 110, and 148. These
figures with the respective death-rates show how superior
health was in Hackney Road compared with health in the
Town, and that the life-destroying forces differ greatly in
degree.
The mortality of infants below 5 years was 1191; of