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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 1894
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1894
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DEATH RATE.
The number of deaths registered in the parish during the year
1894, was 2,398 against 3,031 in the previous year. This includes
152 non-parishioners who died in Bethnal Green Hospitals, and
whose deaths must be excluded from the number. On the other
hand I have received information from Somerset House of the
deaths of 395 inhabitants of Bethnal Green who died in Hospitals
in other parts of London. After adding these deaths and subtracting
the non-parishioners there is a net total of 2,642.
The deaths in each Sub-district, corrected by distribution in a similar manner, were as under:—
| North | 1018 |
| South | 741 |
| East | 883 |
| Total | 2642 |
Upon the basis of the estimated population we show a mortality
rate for the year 1894 of 21.4. This is a decrease of five per
thousand on the rate for the previous year, but it is no less than
four per thousand in excess of the general Metropolitan rate which
was 17.4.
The mortality in the Sub-districts into which the parish is divided was as under:—
| North | 21.4 |
| South | 22.4 |
| East | 20.8 |