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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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DEATH RATE.
We show a mortality for the year 1912 of 15.3 per
thousand living. This rate is nearly three per thousand
below that of the previous year, calculated upon the
population as estimated by the Registrar General, but
it is nearly two points above the rate for London,
which is 13'6 per thousand.
MORTALITY RATE IN SUB-DISTRICTS.
The death rate in the North-East sub-district was
14.9 and that in the South-West 14.8. These rates do
not take into account the deaths of homeless paupers
in the Workhouse as it is impossible to allocate them
to any sub-district, though we must include them in
the general rate for the whole of the Borough.
Table E shows the mortality rates for Bethnal
Green and for London, compared by months, the rainfall
and the mean temperature for each quarter being
also shewn.