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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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dealt with was 898, a rate of seven per thousand on the
estimated population of the Borough. Table II. in the
appendix indicates, inter alia, the number of persons
suffering from each disease ; it also shows the subdistrict
in which such persons resided, and the number
(431), of those removed to hospital.
In 21 instances information was received from one
of the Medical Superintendents of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospitals to the effect that the
diagnosis, as stated on the notification certificate, was
incorrect, a proportion of 2.3 per cent. of the whole.
Table M sets out full particulars of all the
notifications.