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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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REPORT OF THE WORK
DONE BY THE
Woman Sanitary Inspector,
DURING THE YEAR 1908.
Public Health Department,
Bethnal Green.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
SIR,
I have the honour to present to you a short
account of the work done by me in this Borough,
during the year 1908.

Table: The visits paid numbered 3,414; allocated as follows: —

The visits paid numbered 3,414; allocated as follows: —

Workshops305
After Confinement807
Re-inspections626
Infant Deaths439
Infantile (and other) Diseases1,090
Special enquiries147
Total3,414

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The year under consideration was a bad one for the
working people. Poverty and distress were both
widespread and increasing; work of all kinds was
very scarce, and when it was obtained the rate of