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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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TABLE I. Quarterly Mortality for the Borough of Bethnal Green.
| 1914. | Estimated Population in the middle of 1914. | Births. | All Causes. | Enteric Fever. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhœa and Enteritis (under 2 years;. | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age. | All Causes. | Enteric Fever. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Diarrhœa and Enteritis under 2 years) to 1000 Births registered | Total deaths under 1 year to 1000 Births registered. |
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| Borough of Bethnal Green. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| April 4th | 127,662 | 941 | 553 | 1 | — | 5 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 15 | 57 | 123 | 17. 4 | 0.03 | — | 0.16 | 0.06 | 0.57 | 0.25 | 1.79 | 15.94 | 131 |
| July 4th | 127,662 | 967 | 446 | — | — | 16 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 17 | 49 | 106 | 14.0 | — | — | 0.50 | 0.03 | 0.47 | 0.13 | 1.54 | 17.58 | 110 |
| October 3rd | 127,662 | 912 | 493 | 3 | — | 24 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 99 | 50 | 153 | 15.5 | 0.09 | — | 0.75 | 0. 03 | 0. 25 | 0.19 | 1.57 | 108.55 | 168 |
| January 2nd, 1915 | 127,662 | 789 | 542 | — | — | 23 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 43 | 54 | 136 | 17.0 | — | — | 0.72 | 0.09 | 0.22 | 0.31 | 1.70 | 54.50 | 172 |
| 127,662 | 3,609 | 2,034 | 4 | — | 68 | 7 | 48 | 28 | 174 | 210 | 518 | 15.9 | 0.03 | — | 0.53 | 0.05 | 0.38 | 0.22 | 1.65 | 49.14 | 145 |