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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 1908
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1908 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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registered in Betlinal Green, I receive monthly from
Somerset House lists of Bethnal Green residents who
have died in various parts of London. These include
particulars of 407 institution deaths, and also of sixteen
Bethnal Green people who have died sudden or
violent deaths in various parts of London, and upon
whom Coroner's inquests have been held.
Some details of these institutional and violent
deaths are given below: —
TABLE B. Public Institutions situated outside the Borough into which Bethnal Green residents have been received and where they subsequently died.
| Banstead Asylum | 5 |
| Bermondsey Infirmary | 1 |
| Bromley Sick Asylum | 1 |
| Brompton Hospital | 2 |
| Cancer Hospital, Chelsea | 1 |
| Cane Hill Asylum | 1 |
| Caterham Asylum | 2 |
| Children's Hospital, Gt. Ormond Street | 6 |
| Claybury Asylum | 12 |
| Colney Hatch Asylum | 6 |
| Darenth Asylum | 1 |
| Dartford Heath Asylum | 4 |
| Eastern Hospital, Homerton | 11 |
| East London Hospital, Shadwell | 3 |
| Friectenheim Hospital | 3 |
| French Hospital, Victoria Park | 2 |
| German Hospital | 6 |
| Goldsmith Asylum, Hackney | 1 |
| Guy's Hospital | 1 |
| Hackney Infirmary | 3 |