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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 1883

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

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Table: TABLE I.Shewing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the year 1883, and10years preceding.GROSS NUMBERS.

TABLE I.

Shewing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the year 1883, and10years preceding.

GROSS NUMBERS.

The Year.Estimated Population.No. of Inhabited Houses.Marriages.Registered Births.Number of Deaths Registered.Deaths in Public Institutions.
Total all AgesUnder One Year.Under Five Years.
1883128,3702602531030728531576516
1882127,68517,7392602525630948861596486
1881127,00617,7392603523730548031504515
1880126,47017,7212463520128838501466472
1879125,79017,4752443524630227841438526
1878125,11017,3112438519529517871426465
1877 1876124,430 123,75017,325 17,6052438 24435169 52682886 2713799 8151428 1448440 430
1875123,07017,945††525530208751390410
1874122,39017,389††515231428601440432
1873121,61016,000††505031298381566424
Average of 10 years, 1873 to 1882124,73117,4252490520329898301470460