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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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Metropolitan Borough of Betbnal (Breen.
REPORT.
To the Mayor, Aldermen & Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
Sir and Gentlemen,
In this my thirty-seventh Annual Report on the
sanitary condition of Bethnal Green, I beg to lay before
you the vital and mortal statistics of the inhabitants of
the Borough for the year which terminated on the 28th
day of December, 1912.

Table: POPULATION (Census, 1911). By the courtesy of the Registrar General I am able to present some of the revised figures of the census of Bethnal Green which was taken in April, 1911 ; the population was then found to be 128,183, divided as follows:—

POPULATION (Census, 1911). By the courtesy of the Registrar General I am able to present some of the revised figures of the census of Bethnal Green which was taken in April, 1911 ; the population was then found to be 128,183, divided as follows:—

Ward.Sub-District.
East42,622North East63,966.
North21,344
South34,479South West64,217.
West29,738
Males.Females.
Under five years8,2608,066
65 years and upwards2,0992,741