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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 1895
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1895
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NOTES ON TABLE A & B.
The deaths classified in Table (A), and summed up in the
horizontal line of " Totals," are the whole of those registered as
having actually occurred in the several localities comprised within
the district. But the registered number of deaths requires correction
before it can give an exact view of the mortality of the district; and
the two lowest horizontal lines indicate what the extent of such
corrections should be.
Area and Population of the District or
Division to which this Return relates.
Area in Acres 755
Population (1891) 129,134
Death
Rates.
General21.6
Infant (under one
year of age) 162.0
per 1,000
Population, estimated
to middle
of 1895.
per 1,000 Births
Registered.
In recording the facts under the various headings of Tables A and
B, attention has been given to the notes endorsed on the Tables.