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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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BIRTH RATE.
The births actually registered in Bethnal Green
during the year numbered 3,314, but to these must be
added the balance of transferable births (200) notified
to me by the Registrar-General, which raises the total
to 3,514. This gives a birth rate of 27.5 per thousand
population, being 2.1 per thousand below that of last
year. The general London rate stands at 22.9 per
thousand.
TABLE G. MARRIAGES.
| First Quarter | 177 |
| Second Quarter | 408 |
| Third Quarter | 404 |
| Fourth Quarter | 547 |
| Total | 1,536 |
These figures indicate a marriage rate of 24.2 to
every 1,000 persons. The London marriage rate is not
yet available.
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
One-fifth (19.8 per cent.) of the total deaths at
all ages were those of infants in the first year of life;
these numbered 415, giving an infantile death rate of
118 per thousand births. This is a very considerable
decrease on the figure for 1914, which was 137. The