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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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DEATH RATE.
The total number of deaths registered in the Parish during the
year 1895 was 2,564, against 2,398 in the previous year; this includes
150 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 355 inhabitants of Bethnal Green who died in various
Hospitals in other parts of London ; after adding these deaths and
subtracting the non-parishioners there is a net total of 2,796.
The deaths in each sub-district, corrected by distribution in a similar manner, were as under:—
| North | 1024 |
| South | 789 |
| East | 956 |
| Total | 2769 |
Upon the basis of the estimated population we shew a mortality
rate for the year 1894 of 21.6, this is an increase of 0.2 per thousand
on the rate for the previous year and is 2.2 per thousand in excess
of the general rate for the whole of London which was 19 4.
The mortality in the three sub-districts, into which the Parish is divided, was as under:—
| North | 20.9 |
| South | 23.2 |
| East | 21.2 |
Since the demolition of the houses in the Boundary Street area,
the north sub-district appears to have the lowest mortality, whilst
the south sub-district, which contains some of the worst houses in
the Parish, has the highest.
In the following table the mortality rates for London and for
Bethnal Green are compared by quarters, the mean temperature and
rainfall for each three months are also shewn.