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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 1912
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1912 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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SUMMARY.
| Estimated Population of Bethnal Green— | 128,217 | 127,985 |
| Young Children, under 5 years | 10,326 | 16,300 |
| Old People, over 65 years | 4,840 | 4,833 |
| Area—759 acres. Number of Inhabited Houses | 14,826 | 14,784 |
| Rateable Value | £535,170 | £535,093 |
| Average number of Persons to each House | 8.6 | 8.6 |
| Average number of Persons to each Acre | 108 9 | 166.0 |
| Total number of Deaths in the year | 2,316 | 1,957 |
| Total number of Births in the year | 4,032 | 3,904 |
| Total number of Marriages | 1,005 | 1,084 |
| Marriage Rate—Bethnal Green | 15.7 | 16.9 |
| Marriage Rate—London | 17.8 | 13.6 |
| Death Rate—Bethnal Green | 181 | 15.3 |
| Death Rate—London | 15.0 | 13.6 |
| Birth Rate—Bethnal Green | 3.14 | 30.5 |
| Birth Rate—London | 25.0 | 24.5 |
| Infantile Death Rate (on Births), Bethnal Green | 122.6 | 96.0 |
| Infantile Death Rate (on Births), London | 128.0 | 90.0 |
| Young Children's Death Rate (on estimated number of Young Children) | 57.8 | 39.2 |
| Old People's Death Rate (on estimated number of Old People) | 920 | 92.7 |
| Zymotic Death Rate (Bethnal Green) | 34 | 1.45 |
| Zymotic Death Rate—London | 2.2 | 1.1 |
| Inquest Cases | 277 | 257 |