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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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Table: APPENDIX P. Mortuary Returns, 1915.

APPENDIX P. Mortuary Returns, 1915.

Bodies removed to Mortuary—
On Coroner's Order189
By Police17
From London Hospital5
On Sanitary Inspector's Order3
By Request of Relatives56
Total270
Number of Inquests held203
Number of Post Mortem Examinations made99
Particulars of Bodies on which Inquests were held—
Bodies removed by Police from Canal4
Do. do. Street8
Do. do. Great Eastern Railway.4
Do. do. found in Parcels1
Bodies received from Bethnal Green Infirmary30
Do. do. Bethnal House Asylum1
Do. do. Queen's Hospital18
Do. do. Mildmay Mission Hospital8
Do. do. Victoria Park Hospital2
Do. do. Private Houses, etc.127
Total203
Inquest cases according to age periods—
Number under one year47
Number over one year and under five years18
Do. five do. ten do15
Do. ten do. twenty years6
Do. twenty do. thirty do.6
Do. thirty do. forty do.13
Do. forty do. fifty do.22
Do. fifty do. sixty do.29
Do. sixty do. seventy do.25
Do. seventy do. eighty do.18
Do. eighty years4
203