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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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Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
REPORT
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honor to submit for your consideration
my thirty-third Annual Report on the vital statistics
and sanitary condition of the Borough of Bethnal
Green. The year with which the Report deals includes
fifty-three weeks and runs from December the
28th, 1907, to January the 2nd, 1909.
POPULATION.
The Registrar General estimates the population of
Bethnal Green in the middle of the year 1908, at
131,066 —an increase of 235 over 1907.
TABLE A.
| 1907. | 1908 | |
|---|---|---|
| Estimated population in the middle of the year | 130.831 | 131,006 |
| Total Births | 4,152 | 4,341 |
| Total Deaths | 2,281 | 2.275 |
| Excess of Births over Deaths, shewing the natural increase of the population | 1,871 | 2,066 |