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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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APPENDIX F.
Report us Smoke Observation during the year 1908.
Number of Shafts kept under observation—about 100
Number of hours spent in observation 356
Number of intimation notices served 22
Number of statutory notices served 7
APPENDIX G.
Mortuary Returns for 1908.
Bodies removed to Mortuary —
On Coroner's Order 257
By Police 20
By Firemen 1
From London Hospital 18
On Sanitary Inspector's Orders 2
On request of relatives 46
Total 344
Total infectious bodies removed to Mortuary under
the provisions of Public Health (London) Act, 1891 14
Number of Inquests held 274
Number of Post Mortem Examinations made 111
Particulars of bodies on which Inquests were held —
Bodies removed by Police from Great Eastern Railway 1
Ditto ditto Canal 3
Ditto ditto Street, &c 14
Ditto ditto Found in parcels 2
Ditto ditto Firemen 1
Bodies received from Bethnal Green Infirmary 35
Ditto Queen's Hospital 26
Ditto Mildmay Hospital 8
Ditto Private houses, &c 184
Total 274