London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
The deaths of young children aged less than five
years, including infants, numbered 785, and formed
38.5 per cent. of the deaths at all ages; this is equivalent
to a rate of 48.3 per thousand of the population of
young children.
SENILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of persons aged over 65 numbered 387,
a proportion of 19 per cent. of the total deaths at all
ages, and a mortality rate of 80.3 as calculated upon
the population of elderly people.
QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL DEATHS AND
MORTALITY RATES.
Tables I and J are compiled from the Quarterly
Returns of the Registrar-General, and are subject to
correction on publication of the annual return. Following
these will be found the graphic chart showing the
number of deaths week by week in the Borough,
corrected for institution deaths.