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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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BIRTH RATE.
The births actually registered in Bethnal Green
during the year numbered 3,609, but to theses must be
added the balance of the transferable births (177)
notified by the Registrar-General, thus raising the total
to 3,786. This gives a birth rate of 29.6 per thousand
population, nearly two per thousand below that of last
year. The general London rate stands at 24.7 per
thousand,
TABLE G. MARRIAGES, 1914.
| First Quarter | 174 |
| Second do. | 265 |
| Third do. | 287 |
| Fourth do. | 283 |
| Total | 1009 |
These figures indicate a marriage rate of 16.4 to every
thousand persons, as against 19.1 in the County of
London.
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
One-quarter (25.5 per cent.) of the total deaths at
all ages were those of infants in the first year of life;
these numbered 519, giving an infantile death rate of
137 per thousand births. This is a very considerable
increase on the figure for 1913, which was only 118.
The metropolitan infantile death rate has fallen to 104,
as against 105 for the previous year.
An inspection of the accompanying table of special
causes of infantile deaths will demonstrate the fact that,