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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 1905

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1905

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15
BIRTH RATE.
The births registered during the year numbered
4,321, and were equal to a rate of 33T3 per thousand
population. This rate is one-and-a-half per thousand
lower than that of the preceding year, which was 34.75.
The general Metropolitan rate has also decreased and
stands at 27T. This is the lowest on record, it is as
usual about six below our own.
In the registration sub-districts of the Borough the
birth rates were as under; for purposes of comparison
the death rate in each sub-district is also shewn:—

Table: TABLE F.

TABLE F.

Sub-Districts.Birth Rate.Death Rate.
North33.319.0
South32.718.9
East31.317.2

Table: MARRIAGES.

MARRIAGES.

First Quarter156
Second Quarter284
Third Quarter241
Fourth Quarter331
Total1,012

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These figures indicate a marriage rate of 15.5 to
every thousand persons, as against 16.9 in the County
of London.