Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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 I. Quarterly Mortality for the Borough of Bethnal Green.
| 1915. | Estimated Population in the middle of 1915. | Births. | All Causes. | Enteric Fever. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhoea 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. | Diarrhoea 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 3rd | 127,662 | 957 | 692 | 2 | — | 60 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 14 | 58 | 125 | 21.7 | 0.06 | — | 1. 89 | 0.13 | 0.60 | 0.35 | 1.82 | 14.63 | 131 |
| July 3rd | 127,662 | 880 | 520 | 1 | — | 34 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 56 | 88 | 16.3 | 0.63 | — | 1.07 | 0.03 | 0.47 | 0.35 | 1.76 | 14.77 | 100 |
| October 2nd | 127,662 | 757 | 381 | 1 | — | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 55 | 37 | 109 | 12.0 | 0.03 | — | 0.19 | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.13 | 1.16 | 72.66 | 1.44 |
| January 1st, 1916 | 127,662 | 720 | 517 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 53 | 48 | 108 | 16.2 | — | — | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.09 | 0.41 | 1.51 | 73.61 | 1.50 |
| 127,662 | 3,314 | 2,110 4 | — | 101 | 11 | 41 | 39 | 135 | 199 | 430 | 165 | 0.18 | 079 | 0.08 | 0.32 | 0.31 | 1.56 | 43.91 | 131 | |||