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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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DEATH RATE.
We shew a mortality for the year 1913 of 15.7 per
thousand living. This rate, slightly higher than that of
the previous year, is one and a half points above the rate
for London, which is 14.2 per thousand.
MORTALITY RATES IN SUB-DISTRICTS.
The death rate in the North-East sub-district was 15.9
and that in the South-West 15.5. These rates are exclusive
of the thirty-three homeless paupers who died in the
Workhouse, although these are of necessity included in
the general rate for the whole of the Borough.
Table E shews the mortality rates for Bethnal Green
and for London, compared by months, the rainfall and
the mean temperature for each quarter being also shewn.