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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.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Summary of Replies to enquiries as to arrangements obtaining in Metropolitan
Boroughs and Cities in regard to:-
(1) TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARIES.
(2) SCHOOLS FOR MOTHERS.
(3) MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE CENTRES.
APRIL, 1915.
Synopsis.
No. of Boroughs with Dispensaries in operation 18
Average annual attendance of Patients per 1000 population 8.9
(On this figure Bethnal Green = 1136 attendances per annum).
Average annual No. of attendances per patient 12.5
No. of Boroughs with Municipal Maternity Schemes in entire or partial
operation 11
London:
J. S. Forsaith & Son, Printers, 329, Bethnal Green Road.
1915.