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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 1910
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1910 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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APPENDIX Q.
Mortuary Returns, 1910.
Bodies removed to Mortuary—
On Coroner's Order 249
By Police 14
By Firemen 3
From London Hospital 15
On Sanitary Inspectors' Order 5
On Request of Relatives 39
Total 325
Number of Inquests held 266
Number of Post Mortem Examinations 91
Particulars of bodies on which Inquests were held—
Bodies removed by Police from Railway 2
Ditto ditto Canal 1
Ditto ditto Street 7
Ditto ditto Police Station 1
Ditto ditto Found in Parcels 4
Ditto Firemen (74, Green Street) 3
Bodies received from Bethnal Green Infirmary 54
Ditto Bethnal Green Asylum 1
Ditto Queen's Hospital 18
Ditto Mildmay Mission Hospital 8
Ditto Private Houses, etc 167
Total 266
Inquest cases according to age period—
Number under one year 79
Number over one year and under five years 24
Do. five do. ten do 8
Do. ten do. twenty years 5
Do. twenty do. thirty do. 5
Do. thirty do. forty do. 19
Do. forty do. fifty do. 29
Number over fifty years and under sixty years 23
Do. sixty do. seventy do. 29
Do. seventy do. eighty do. 38
Do. eighty years 7
Total 266