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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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TABLE I. Quarterly Mortality for the Borough of Bethnal Green.
| 1913. | Estimated Population in the middle of 1913. | Births. | All Causes. | Enteric Fever. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhcea and Enteritis (under 2 years). | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age. | All Causes. | Enteric Fever. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Pulmonary Tuberoulosis. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) to 1000 Births registered | Total deaths under 1 1 year to 1000 Births registered. |
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| Borough of Bethnal Green. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| March 29th | 127,824 | 935 | 635 | 2 | 42 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 15 | 70 | 125 | 19.9 | 0.06 | — | 1.32 | 0.03 | 0.31 | 0.06 | 2.20 | 16.04 | 134 | |
| June 28th | 127,824 | 992 | 423 | 1 | — | 11 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 39 | 74 | 13.3 | 0.03 | — | 0.35 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.13 | 1.22 | 6.05 | 75 |
| September 27th | 127,824 | 922 | 420 | 1 | — | 5 | — | 3 | 1 | 82 | 38 | 132 | 13.2 | 0.03 | — | 0.16 | — | 0.09 | 0.03 | 1.19 | 88.94 | 143 |
| January 3rd, 1914 | 127,824 | 1,004 | 528 | - | — | 4 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 48 | 54 | 139 | 15.4 | - | — | 0.12 | 0.03 | 0.47 | 0.09 | 1.57 | 47.81 | 138 |
| 127,824 | 3,853 | 2,006 | 4 | — | 62 | 3 | 34 | 10 | 151 | 201 | 470 | 15.4 | 0.03 | — | 0.49 | 0.02 | 0.26 | 0.08 | 1.54 | 39.71 | 122 |