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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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Table: TABLE F.

TABLE F.

Quarter ending.London.Bethnal Green
March 30th, 191215.316.6
June 29th, 191212.413.3
September 28th, 191211.512.6
December 28th, 191215.018.7
Yearly average13.515.3

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BIRTH RATE.
The births actually registered in Bethnal Green
during the year numbered 3,702, but to these must be
added the balance of the transferable births (202)
notified by the Registrar General, thus raising the total
to 3,904, This gives a birth rate of 3055 per thousand
population, nearly one per thousand below that of last
year. The general London rate now stands at 24.5, a
figure identical with that of the preceding year.

Table: Marriages, 1912.

Marriages, 1912.

First Quarter136
Second Quarter262
Third Quarter329
Fourth Quarter357
Total1,084

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These figures indicate a marriage rate of 16.9 to
every thousand persons, as against 18'6 in the County
of London.