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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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The number of births registered in the three subdistricts,
into which Bethnal Green is sub-divided, is
shewn in the following table, while for purposes of comparison
the population of each sub-district, estimated to
the middle of the year 1904, is also shewn:—
TABLE B.
BIRTHS IN SUB-DISTRICTS.
| District. | Births. 1903. | Births. 1904. | Estimated Population in 1904. |
|---|---|---|---|
| North | 1,945 | 1,892 | 51,600 |
| South | 1,171 | 1,194 | 33,179 |
| East | 1,511 | 1,440 | 45,428 |
DEATHS.
The weekly returns of the Local Registrars forwarded
to me shew particulars of 2,393 deaths in Bethnal
Green, indicating a crude death rate of 18.4. Amongst
the deaths so registered are included those of three
hundred non-residents who died whilst under treatment
in Bethnal Green Public Institutions; four other
persons, also non-residents, died violent or sudden
deaths whilst temporarily within the boundaries of the
Borough; one of these was an unknown man, aged
about 45, who was killed on the railway near Bethnal
Green Junction; another, a Brixton man, was injured in
a lift accident in Bacon Street, and was found to have
broken his neck; a third was found drowned in the
Canal; and the fourth man, aged 45, ruptured an
aneurism of the aorta whilst passing through Brick