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Bethnal Green 1909

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1909 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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subject to correction inasmuch as the registered deaths
include those of 435 non-residents, all of whom were
under treatment and died whilst inmates of one or
other of the various Public Institutions situated in
Bethnal Green. Eight other persons also non-residents
died sudden or violent deaths or were found dead
within the boundaries of the Borough. They were
1. A broker's man, aged 67, from High Street,
Walthamstow, died in Bethnal Green Road, from Syncope;
he was suffering from acute Pneumonia.
2. A tailor's widow aged 42, of Pope's Head Court,
Spitalfields, died in Little York Street, from Syncope; she
had aortic disease of the heart.
3. A cigar maker's widow aged 57, of Devonshire
Street, Mile End, died of Syncope, in Finnis Street; she
had concussion of the brain from falling.
4. A chair maker of Moye Street, Shoreditch, aged
37, died in Columbia Road, from Hcemoptysis; he had
tubercular phthisis.
5. The son, aged 16, of a cabinet maker from Ley ton,
committed suicide on the Great Eastern Railway, near
Devonshire Street Station.
6. The child, aged twenty-one months, of a woman
living at Kensal Rise, died from Broncho-pneumonia, at
Driffield Road.
7. A chairmaker, aged 61, of Ford Street, Poplar,
died from heart disease on Victory Bridge.
8. A ropemaker, aged 56, from Bow, was found
drowned in the Regent's Canal.