London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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Causes of death in Inquest Cases—continued.
| Inanition | 13 |
| Improper Feeding | 1 |
| Marasmus 2 | 2 |
| Measles | 5 |
| Meningitis | 3 |
| Natural Debility | 2 |
| Pericarditis | 1 |
| Peritonitis 2 | 2 |
| Phthisis | 9 |
| Pleurisy | 3 |
| Pneumonia | 4 |
| Premature Births | 6 |
| Rupture of Aorta | 7 |
| Self Neglect | 1 |
| Senile Decay | 2 |
| Still-Born | 2 |
| Want of attention at birth | 10 |
| Accidental Deaths— | |
| Falls | 27 |
| Drowning | 1 |
| Crushed by Engine | 1 |
| Run over on Great Eastern Railway 1 | 1 |
| Run over in street | 4 |
| Suffocation in Bed | 20 |
| Burns | 10 |
| Found Drowned | 1 |
| Misadventure—Deaths while under Chloroform | 3 |
| Blood Poisoning | 4 |