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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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2. A greaser, aged 20 years, of Leytonstone,
was crushed between the buffers of some trucks on
the railway between Bethnal Green Junction and
Brick Lane.
3. A baby, aged three weeks, of London
Fields, died on the way to the London Hospital from
pneumonia.
4. A chair maker, aged 63 years, of Cassland
Road, Hackney, committed suicide at Albert
Buildings by hanging himself.
5. A porter, aged 43 years, of St. George-inthe-East,
died at 53, Gretton Houses, from chronic
alcoholism.
6. A tool maker, aged 61 years, of Shoreditch,
died at 302, Hackney Road, from pneumonia.
7. A baby, aged one year, of London Fields,
died in Goldsmith Bow from broncho-pneumonia.
8. The wife of a baker, aged 47 years, of
Walworth, died at la, Alias Road from cerebral
hæmorrhage.
9. A woman, aged 30 years, of Edmonton,
died at 424, Corfield Street, from cardiac valvular
disease.
10. A baker, aged 72 years, of Globe Road,
Mile End, died at the Congregational Church,
Approach Road, from aneurism of the aorta.