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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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DEATH BATE.
We show a mortality for the year 1914 of 15.9 per
thousand living. This rate, which is slightly higher than
that of the previous year, is one and a half points above
the rate for London, which is 14.4 per thousand.
MORTALITY RATES IN SUB-DISTRICTS.
The death rate for the North-East Sub-district was
16.3, and that for the South-West 15.4. These rates
are exclusive of the twenty-one homeless paupers who
died in the Workhouse, although those are of necessity
included in the general rate for the whole of the
Borough.
Table E shows the mortality rates for Bethnal
Green and for London, compared by months, the rainfail
and the mean temperature for each quarter also
being shown.