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 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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| District. | Infectious Cases. | Complaints. | House to House Inspections. | Trade Inspections. | Re-inspections. | Milkshop Inspections. | Factory and Workshop Inspections. | Outworkers' Homes Inspections. | Tenement House Inspections | New Buildings Inspections. | Ice Cream Shop Inspections. | Combined Draiage Inspections. | Smoke Nuisances— Premises under Observation. | Other Inspections or work of Special Character. | Number of Calls. | Unsound Food Seizures. | Samples of Food and Drugs taken. | Police Court Attendances. | Nuisances Abated. | Number of Cases in Hand | Total Visits for the Year. | Inspector. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 296 | 174 | 7 | _ | 2639 | 72 | 443 | 851 | 94 | _ | 26 | _ | _ | 75 | 228 | - | 79 | 10 | 643 | 60 | 4905 | E. Ainley. |
| B | 259 | 232 | 121 | — | 1805 | 137 | 269 | 740 | 84 | — | 59 | — | — | 158 | 49 | — | 81 | 3 | 593 | 40 | 3913 | A. S. Henley. |
| C | 358 | 424 | 12 | — | 2651 | 70 | 76 | 339 | 223 | — | 28 | — | — | 106 | 88 | — | 117 | 54 | 796 | 42 | 4375 | J. G. Weeks. |
| D | 380 | 42 | — | 4 | 3424 | 264 | 774 | 162 | 521 | — | 81 | 1 | — | 146 | — | — | 96 | 23 | 814 | 35 | 5799 | P. Bare. |
| E | 526 | 284 | — | — | 2292 | 105 | 214 | 72 | 162 | _ | 39 | — | - | 168 | 448 | — | 97 | 9 | 698 | 25 | 4310 | J. H. Hewett. |
| F | 404 | 359 | — | — | 2684 | 113 | 587 | 373 | 50 | 2 | 30 | — | - | 98 | 322 | 8 | 37 | - | 936 | 42 | 5022 | I. R. Jones. |
| 21 | 39 | 419 | 12 | 2494 | — | 179 | 161 | — | 52 | — | — | — | 108 | 10 | — | — | 10 | 324 | 110 | 3495 | E. Richards. | |
| — | 8 | — | 1196 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 208 | — | 18 | 3 | 213 | 39 | — | — | 1430 | W. Rowsell. | |
| 43 | 60 | 293 | — | 294 | — | 469 | 622 | 83 | — | — | 276 | — | 45 | 12 | — | — | — | 236 | 207 | 2201 | G. Brighting. | |
| Totals | 2287 | 1622 | 852 | 1212 | 18283 | 761 | 3011 | 3320 | 1217 | 54 | 263 | 277 | 208 | 904 | 1175 | 11 | 728 | 148 | 5040 | 561 | 35450 |