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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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Synopsis
OF
MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1907.
General Summary 6
Birth and Death Rates in Metropolitan Boroughs 5
Population 7
Table "A" Births. 7
Deaths.
Table "B" Public Institutions outside Bethnal Green
into which residents have been received and
where they have died 10
Residents found drowned outside the Borough 11
Table "C" Public Institutions in Bethnal Green 13
Table "D" Deaths in Sub-districts 14
Table "E" Monthly mortality rates.— London and
Bethnal Green 15
Table "F" Quarterly rates, London and Bethnal Green 16
Birth Rates 16
Table "G" Birth rates and death rates in sub-districts 16
Table "H" Marriages 17
Table "1.,' Infantile deaths, Bethnal Green and
England and Wales 17
egitimate Births, Bethnal Green and England and
Wales 18
Remarks on death of infants—
Percentages of causes of death 19
Averages, Home and Foreign Countries 21
Special causes of death 21
Unfavourable influences on pregnant women 23
Suggested remedies 29
Report of Woman Inspector 31
Deaths of young children 39
Elderly persons death rate 40
Weekly mortality chart 40