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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 1904

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1904

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Table: MARRIAGES.

MARRIAGES.

First Quarter138
Second Quarter275
Third Quarter264
Fourth Quarter268
Total945

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These figures indicate a marriage rate of 14.5 to
every thousand persons, as against 17.0 in the County
of London.
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
Twenty-eight and a half per cent. of the total deaths
from all causes were those of infants aged less than
twelve months; for out of 4,526 infants born alive, 711
died within one year of their birth; thus giving a rate,
calculated upon the total births, of 157. The corresponding
rate for the whole of London is 144.
DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
Forty per cent. of the deaths from all causes, that is
to say 1,069, were those of children aged less than five
years. This is equivalent to a rate of 60.0 per thousand
calculated upon the estimated population of young
children.
ELDERLY PERSONS DEATH RATE.
The number of deaths among persons aged over 65
years of age was 437; this gives a death rate of 91.0,
calculated upon the estimated population of elderly
persons.