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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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DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
The deaths of young children aged less than five
years, including infants, numbered 1024, forming 4.22 per
cent. of the deaths at all ages. This is equivalent to a
rate of 57.8 per thousand of the estimated population of
young children.
SENILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of persons aged over 65 numbered 440,
a proportion of 21 per cent. of the total deaths at all
ages, which gives a death rate, calculated upon the
estimated population of elderly people, of 92.0.
QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL DEATHS AND
MORTALITY RATES.
Tables G and H, overleaf, show, in addition to
actual number of deaths, the quarterly and annual
rates of births and deaths, also mortalities from the
principal Zymotic diseases and from Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Following these will be found the graphic
chart, showing the numbers of deaths week by week in
the Borough, corrected for institution deaths.