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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 1914
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1914 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
REPORT.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit for your consideration
my thirty-ninth annual report on the health of the
Borough of Bethnal Green. The vital and mortal
statistics are calculated for the registration year 1914,
which terminated on January 2nd, 1915. I may here
remark that I trust this report will be in your handssomewhat
earlier than that of 1913, which was not published
until March, 1915. It is obvious that the value
of a health report is largely discounted by delay in
publication.
POPULATION.
The official estimate of the population of Bethnal
Green for the year 1914 is 127,662; the Registrar-