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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 1911
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1911 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
REPORT.
To the Mayor, Aldermen & Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to lay before you my thirtysixth
Annual Report on the vital statistics and sanitary
condition of the Borough of Bethnal Green, relating to
the registration year, 1911, which terminated on
Saturday, December 30th, last.
POPULATION.
The Registrar General's estimate of the population
of the Borough in the middle of the year 1911 is
128,247; this figure is based upon the actual census
enumeration taken in the early part of that year, when
the number of inhabitants in Bethnal Green was found
to be 128,282, a number 1,398 below the figure of the
previous census in 1901, and being a decrease at the
rate of 1.08 per cent. This falling off is common
throughout London, for whilst only nine of the
Metropolitan Boroughs show any increase of population,
twenty others, including Bethnal Green, show a
decrease. Such decrease is most marked in the City