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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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General assumes that our numbers have decreased to
the extent of 162 persons, and although the excess of
the births over deaths during the year amounted to
1,750, yet such a large number of our inhabitants must
have left the district for military and other purposes
that I very much question if sufficient allowance has been
made for these exceptional circumstances. Table “A”
shows the figures set out in detail:—
TABLE A.
| 1913. | 1914. | |
|---|---|---|
BIRTHS.
The children born alive in Bethnal Green during
the year numbered 3,609, but two of the births which
were registered as occurring at the Workhouse were
infants born of mothers who were not inhabitants of
Bethnal Green.
In addition to the local births, I have received
information from the Registrar-General that during the
year 179 infants were born of Bethnal Green mothers in
some one or other of the Metropolitan institutions where
maternity cases are admitted. The details of these transferable
births are given below, and the adjustment of
the total number is as follows:—