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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 1907
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1907 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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In the River Lea, near Kingsford Bridge, a dock
labourer aged 50; verdict, drowning, bat no evidence to
shew how.
In the River Thames, at Adelphi steps, a chairmaker,
aged 32—verdict, suicide.
In the River Thames at Ratcliff Cross Stairs, a Naval
Pensioner who had fallen from a boat whilst painting
H.M.S. Buzzard; verdict, accidentally drowned.
These twelve deaths of persons ordinarily resident
in Bethnal Green, together with the 379 Hospital
deaths form a total of 391, and after adding these and
subtracting the 310 non-residents, there remains a net
total of 2,281.