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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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2. The six months old baby of a Barman from
Pereira Street, died at Ironmonger's Row, St. Luke's, as
the result of a fall from a chair.
3. A clothes dealer, aged 52, of Darling Row, died
at the Montefiore Arms P. H., Houndsditch, from Syncope
due to fatty and hypertrophied heart and indigestion.
4. A carman, aged 27, from Durant Street, died in
Gray's Inn Road, as the result of injuries received in a
collision between his own van and another.
5. A chair manufacturer, aged 69, from Grove Road,
died in a nursing home in Wimpole Street, St. Marylebone.
The cause of death was stated to be Prostatic disease and
calculus of bladder (2 years) operation nine days ; Purulent
Thrombosis.
6. A corn merchant, aged 72, from Hackney Road,
died in a nursing home at Colosseum Terrace, St. Pancras,
from Cancer of Pylorus; exhaustion 7 days after operation.
7. A widow, aged 62 years, from Busby Street, died
in the Parish Room of St. Mary's Vicarage, Whitechapel,
from Valvular disease of the heart.
8. An orange porter, aged 34, from Hague Street,
was run down by a motor car in Bishopsgate Street
Without, and killed.
9. The fifteen months old daughter of a domestic
servant of Bethnal Green Road, died at Beckerton Road,
Islington, from Teething, Marasmus and Exhaustion.
10. A stevedore, aged 40, from Russia Lane, was
drowned whilst endeavouring to get on a ladder at the side
of S.S. Batavia, in the River Thames, off Tower of
London.