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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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In the following table the mortality rates for London and for
Bethnal Green are compared by quarters:—

TABLE C.

London.Bethnal Green.
March Quarter21.226.0
June Quarter17.421.0
September Quarter15.918.7
December Quarter16.620.1

I am indebted to the British Medical Journal for the following
Extract:—
THE DEATH-RATES OF LONDON SANITARY AREAS
DURING 1894.
In the accompanying table will be found summarised the vital
statistics of the forty-three sanitary areas of the metropolis, based
upon the Registrar-General's returns for the year 1894. The
mortality figures in the table relate to the deaths of persons actually
belonging to the respective sanitary areas, and are the result of a
complete system of distribution of deaths occurring in the public
institutions of London among the various sanitary areas in which
the patients had previously resided.
The 130,553 births registered in London during 1894 were equal
to a rate of 301 per 1,000 of the population, estimated at 4,349,166
persons in the middle of that year. In each of the two preceding
years 1892 and 1893 the birth-rate was 30-9 per 1,000. In the
various sanitary areas the birth-rates showed, as usual, wide
variations, owing principally to the differences in the sex and age
distributions of their populations. In Kensington, St. George
Hanover Square, St. James Westminster, Hampstead, St. Martinin-the-Fields,
London City, and Lee, the birth-rates were considerably