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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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Synopsis
OF
MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1908.
PAGE
General Summary 7
Birth and Death Rates in Metropolitan Boroughs 6
Population 8
Table "A"
Births.
Deaths.
8
Table "B" Public Institutions outside Bethnal Green
into which residents have been received and
where they have died 11
Sudden or Violent Deaths. 12
Table "C" Public Institutions in Bethnal Green 15
Table "D" Deaths in Sub-districts 16
Table "E" Monthly mortality rates. —London and
Bethnal Green 17
Table "F" Quarterly Death rates, London and
Bethnal Green 18
Birth Rates 18
Table "G" Birth rates and death rates in sub-districts 18
Table "H." Marriages 19
Deaths of infants 19
Report of Woman Inspector 23
Bethnal Green Health Society 29
Notification of Births Act, 1907. 31
Deaths of young children 32
Elderly persons death rate 32
Weekly mortality chart 32
Table "J." Quarterly Mortalities, London 34
Table"K." do. do. Bethnal Green 34
The principal Zymotic diseases 36
Table "L." Deaths at home and in hospital 36
Table "M." Comparison between 1907 and 1908 37
Table "N." Percentages of Deaths from Zymotic diseases 37