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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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APPENDIX O.
Mortuary Returns, 1907
Bodies removed to Mortuary—
On Coroner's Order 234
By Police 22
By Firemen 2
From London Hospital 9
On Sanitary Inspector's Order 5
On Request of Relatives 73
Total 345
Number of Inquests held 258
Number of Post Mortem Examinations made 121
Particulars of Bodies on which Inquests were held—
Bodies Removed by Police from Great Eastern Railway 3
„ „ ,, Canal 2
„ „ ,, Street, &c 12
„ „ „ Found in parcels 5
„ ,, Firemen from Thorold Street 2
Bodies Received from Bethnal Green Infirmary 36
„ „ „ House Asylum 1
,, „ North-Eastern Hospital 16
„ „ Mildmay Mission Hospital 6
Private Houses, &c 175
Total 258