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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 1913
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1913 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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APPENDIX P.
Mortuary Returns, 1913.
Bodies removed to Mortuary—
On Coroner's Order 237
By Police 16
From London Hospital 4
On Bequest of Relatives 77
Total 334
Number of Inquests held 247
Number of Post Mortem Examinations made 90
Particulars of Bodies on which Inquests were held—
Bodies removed by Police from Canal 4
Do. do. Street, etc. 9
Do. do. found in Parcels 2
Bodies received from Bethnal Green Infirmary 56
Do. do. Queen's Hospital 17
Do. do. Mildmay Hospital 8
Do. do. Private Houses, etc 151
Total 247
Inquest cases according to age period—
Number under one year 64
Number over one year and under five years 24
Do. five do. ten do. 11
Do. ten do. twenty years 5
Do. twenty do. thirty do. 7
Do. thirty do. forty do. 19
Do. forty do. fifty do. 22
Do. fifty do. sixty do. 31
Do. sixty do. seventy do. 26
Do. seventy do. eighty do. 26
Do. eighty years 12
247
Causes of Death in Inquest cases—
Abscess on the Brain 1
Acute Bronchitis 8