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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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3. A bird-cage maker of Green Street, aged 51, died
in Cable Street, Canonbury, of heart disease.
4. A caretaker, aged 51, of Brick Lane, died
suddenly in St. Mark's Square, St. Pancras ; bis death
was due to malignant disease of nose and pharynx.
5. An ironworker of Shipton Street, aged 38, was
found drowned in the River Lea near Shurmur's Wharf,
Hackney.
6. A carman, aged 50, of Great Eastern Buildings,
was found drowned in the River Thames at Charlton.
TABLE B.
Public Institutions, situated outside the Borough, into which Bethnal Green residents have been received and where they have subsequently died:—
| All Saints' Home, Hackney | 2 |
| Babies' Home, Shoreditch | 1 |
| Banstead Asylum | 3 |
| Cancer Hospital, Chelsea | 1 |
| Cane Hill Asylum | 1 |
| Caterham Asylum | 4 |
| Charing Cross Hospital | 1 |
| Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street | 6 |
| City of London Lying-in Hospital | 1 |
| Claybury Asylum | 18 |
| Colney Hatch Asylum | 10 |
| Darenth Asylum | 1 |
| Dartford Heath Asylum | 7 |
| Eastern Hospital, Homerton | 32 |
| East London Hospital, Shadwell | 3 |
| Fountain Asylum | 3 |
| Friedenheim Hospital | 2 |
| German Hospital | 4 |
| Guy's Hospital | 2 |