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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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BIRTHS.
The number of births registered during the year
was 4,220; but in addition to these a number of
children were born of Bethnal Green mothers who
were temporarily residing as inmates of lying-in
institutions in other Metropolitan Boroughs. These
have been notified to me as follow:-
Stepney 91
Poplar 5
Finsbury 5
Hackney 2
City of London 2
Shoreditch 1
Various 15
Total 121
The addition of this number raises the total of
Bethnal Green births to 4,341, a figure which exceeds
that of 1907, by 189. The births exceeded the deaths
by 2,066.
DEATHS.
The local Registrars give particulars in their weekly
returns of 2,251 deaths during the registration year of
fifty-three weeks. This number indicates a crude
death rate of 16.9. Amongst the deaths registered as
occurring in the Borough are included those of 392
non-residents, who were under treatment and died in
Bethnal Green public institutions. Seven other persons
also non-residents, died sudden or violent deaths, or