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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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London Hospital 102
City of London Lying-in Hospital 36
East End Mothers' Home 18
Maternity Home, Underwood Street 12
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 2
Whitechapel Infirmary 1
Various 8
Total 179
Births registered in the Borough 3,609
Add inward transfers 179
Gross total 3,788
Deduct outward transfers 2
Net total of Bethnal Green births 3,786
DEATHS.
The deaths actually recorded in the returns of the
Local Registrars numbered 2,113, but included in this
number are particulars of the deaths of 434 non-residents
who were under treatment at one or other of the four
Bethnal Green Public Institutions where sick persons are
received; ten other non-residents died sudden or violent
deaths whilst temporarily residing in or passing through
Bethnal Green. The details are as follows:—
1. An infant, aged ten months, died from
whooping-cough and pneumonia whilst on the way
to the Queen's Hospital; its parents resided in
Haggerston.