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Bethnal Green 1882

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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BETHNAL GEEEN SANITAEY DISTEICT.
TABLE II.
Shewing the Annual Birth Rate, Rate of Mortality, Death Rate among Children, and Deaths in Public Institutions for the year
1882, and 10 years preceding.
YEAR.
Birth Rate
per 1000 of the
Population.
Annual Rate of
Mortality
per 1,000 living.
Deaths of Children
under 1 year: per
centage of Total
Deaths.
Percentage of
Deaths of Children
under 1 year to
Registered Births.
Deaths of Children
under 5 years:
percentage of
Total Deaths.
Total Number of
Dearhs in Public
Institutions.
1882
41.0
24.1
27.9
16.1
51.5
486
1881
41.1
24.0
26.2
15.3
49.3
515
1880
40.9
23.0
29.2
16.3
50.3
472
1879
39.3
23.0
25.5
14.9
46.8
526
1878
39.3
23.0
29.6
15.3
48.8
465
1877
39.8
23.0
26.7
15.4
47.6
440
†1876-7
40.7
20.9
27.8
15.3

430
†l875-6
41.0
23.4
29.0
16.8

410
†l874-5
40.6
27.7
27.0
16.5

432
*1873-4
40.0
25.0
26.7
16.5
50.0
424
*1872-3
41.6
20.8
+
+

50.7
357
Average of 10 years, 1872 to
1881
40.4
23.3
27.5
15.8
49.0
44.7
NOTES.
*The figures upon which the calculations for these years are based are extracted from the annual reports of the late Dr. Saxvis, and are not corrected for
Hospital or extra Parochial deaths.
+No returns were supplied to the Sanitary Department by the Local Registrars during these years.
‡No information.