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Bethnal Green 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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which was 32.6. The Registrar-General remarks that this was the
lowest rate on record since 1850, when it was 32.0.
TABLE A.
| Divisions. | Collectors. | Inhabited Houses. | Workshops separate from Houses. | Saw Mills and Timber Yards. | Schools. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Ward | W. I. Shenton | 5143 | 32 | 13 | 13 | |
| West Ward North Division | H. Liebrecht | 2579 | G7 | 11 Saw Mills, 3 Timber yards, 8 | 4 | Tobacco Manufactory Market |
| West Ward South Division | W. N. Eagles | 1565 | 18 | 16 | 5 | |
| North Ward | E. S. Smith | 3020 | 18 | 21 | 4 | |
| South Ward | H. J. Bliss | 5480 | 170 | 3 | 6 | |
| Total, 1885 | 17,787 | 305 | 64 | 32 | ||
| Total, 1881 | 17,833 | 283 | 55 | 32 |
This total indicates a marriage rate of 19.62 to every thousand
persons ; or, as in each marriage there are two contracting parties,
39.24 per thousand of our population entered the bonds of
matrimony.
Sixty-one of these weddings were purely civil contracts, and
required the presence of the Registrar; 29 of them took place in
Chapels, and 32 at the Registrar's Office.
The rate for London was 16.9. This was the lowest marriage
rate as yet recorded in London ; and the two next lowest, moreover,
were those of the two immediately preceding years, 1883 and 1884,
when the rates were 17.9 and 17.6 respectively.
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
No less than 26.32 per cent. of the deaths from all causes were
those of infants aged less than twelve months ; for out of 5158 children
born, 750 died before reaching the age of one year, leaving only
4408 who attained that age. This gives a death rate calculated
upon tho births of 145.4 or of 5.8 per thousand population at all
ages. The diseases most fatal to infants were:—Inflammatory
Chest Diseases, 131; Atrophy and Debility, 120 ; Convulsions, 88 ;
Premature Birth, 63; Diarrhæa, 57; Diseases of Brain, 46;
Suffocation, 36; Measles, 35; Consumption of Bowels, 33; Whooping
Cough, 25.