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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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DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
The deaths of young children aged less than five
years numbered 830 and form 37.7 per cent. of the
deaths from all causes. This is equivalent to a rate
of 46.3 per thousand estimated population of young
children.
ELDERLY PERSONS DEATH RATE.
The number of persons aged over sixty-five who
died during the year numbered 508 a proportion of
twenty-three per cent. of the total deaths at all ages.
This gives a death rate calculated upon the estimated
population of elderly persons of 88.6.
WEEKLY MORTALITY.
The usual chart shewing the numbers of deaths
week by week in the Borough, will be found on the
next page. The figures are corrected for deaths in
institutions.
QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL DEATHS
AND MORTALITY RATES.
Tables J and K overleaf shew in addition to actual
nu mbers of deaths, quarterly and annual rates of
births and deaths and also mortalities from the principal
zymotic diseases and from phthisis.