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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 AFTER THE ADMINISTRATION
OF ANÆSTHETICS.
These numbered three:—A bricklayer, aged 63, upon
whom the operation of Gastro-enterostomy was performed.
A tubercular child aged nine who had an
abscess in the neck opened. An infant aged seven
months who was operated upon for the removal of a
nævus.
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
Two deaths were registered without medical certificates.
They were:—The wife, aged 50, of a Hebrew
teacher, she was said to have died from heart disease.
The thirteen months old daughter of a firewood cutter,
from measles.
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACTS,
1890 to 1903.
Only two certificates were applied for; the premises
were:—
Sutton Model Dwellings, James Street. Blocks A, B, C, D,
E, F, G, H; each block contains 20 tenements, 160 in all. The
certificate was granted.
Cambridge Buildings, Darling Row. Nos. 29 to 44; 17
tenements. Sanitary condition unsatisfactory. Certificate refused.