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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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such officers, a proportion of their salaries, not exceeding
one half.
DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
The deaths of young children aged less than five
years numbered 919, and form per cent, of the
deaths from all causes. This is equivalent to a rate
of 50 - 5 per thousand calculated upon the estimated
population of young children.
ELDERLY PERSONS DEATH RATE.
Of the 2,275 deaths at all ages, 441 were those of
persons aged over sixty-five years, a proportion of 19
per cent. This gives a death rate, calculated upon
the estimated population of elderly persons of 75.9.
WEEKLY MORTALITY.
The line on the chart of deaths from all causes
indicates the number of deaths in the Borough week
by week corrected for institution deaths.
QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL DEATHS
AND MORTALITY RATES.
Tables J and K overleaf, shew in addition to actual
numbers of deaths, quarterly and annual rates of
mortality for the principal Zymotic diseases and for
Phthisis in Bethnal Green and in the whole of London.
Particulars of birth and death rates are also
given.