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 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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Number of Inquests held 275
Number of Post Mortem Examinations made 122
Particulars of bodies on which Inquests were held—
Bodies removed by Police from Great Eastern Railway 1
Ditto ditto Canal 2
Ditto ditto Street, etc 8
Ditto ditto Found in Parcels 2
Bodies received from Bethnal Green Infirmary 34
Ditto Bethnal House Asylum 3
Ditto Queen's Hospital 24
Ditto Mildmay Mission Hospital 6
Ditto Private Houses, etc. 195
Total 275
Inquest cases according to age periods—
Number under one year 76
Number over one year and under five years 29
Do. five do. ten do. 8
Do. ten do. twenty years 10
Do. twenty do. forty do. 24
Do. forty do. sixty do. 54
Do. sixty do. eighty do. 62
Do. eighty 12
Total 275
Causes of death in Inquest cases—
Abscess 2
Acute Gastritis 1
„ Peritonitis 3
„ Meningitis 1
Apoplexy 12
Atelectasis 4
Bronchitis 10
Broncho-Pneumonia 6
Cancer 3