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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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To E. C. MORGAN, Esq.,
Governor of the London Branch of
National Children's Home and Orphanage,
Bonner Road, London, N.E.
From A. C. TUNSTALL,
M.D., F.R.C.S., Ed., L.R.C.R, etc.,
Medical Officer of London Branch.
Sir, 24th January, 1911.
In answer to the letter from the Local
Government Board, reference (5486 A, 19th
January, 1911). I have the honour to report as
under:—
The London Branch of the National Children's
Home and Orphanage, with which we are
concerned, is in the Borough of Bethnal Green,
and is composed of three groups of Houses, etc.,
quite separate from each other, viz:—
First or Main Group—Contains Chapel,
School-rooms, Offices, Workshops, Swimming-bath
and 17 Houses, opening on to five Playgrounds,
etc.
Second Group—Two Houses used entirely for
Hospital purposes.
Third Group—One House used as a Receiving
House.
All these are situated at Bonner Road, and at
Bishop's Road, at the back of Bonner Road.
There are about 320 children in this Branch.