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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 1915
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1915 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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their own homes, are excluded, but deaths of refugees
and of interned aliens are regarded as non-transferable.
The deaths of civilians actually recorded in the returns
of the local Registrars number 2152, but included in
these returns are particulars of the deaths of 494 nonresidents
who were under treatment at one or other of
the four Bethnal Green Public Institutions where sick
persons are received. Eight other non-residents died
sudden or violent deaths whilst temporarily residing in or
passing through Bethnal Green.
The monthly returns of transferable deaths forwarded
by the Somerset House authorities contain particulars
of 426 deaths; these include, in addition to the
deaths in public institutions, the names of 15 inhabitants
of Bethnal Green who have died or were found drowned
in various parts of London.
TABLE B. Public institutions situated outside the Borough into which Bethnal Green residents have been received and where they have subsequently died.
| Banstead Asylum | 4 |
| Bow Institution | 1 |
| Bulstrode House, Marylebone | 1 |
| Camberwell Infirmary | 1 |
| Cane Hill Asylum. | 2 |
| Caterham Asylum | 8 |
| Charing Cross Hospital | 1 |
| City of London Lying-in Hospital | 1 |
| Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street | 2 |
| Claybury Asylum | 13 |
| Colney Hatch Asylum | 14 |