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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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Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
REPORT.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
Sir and Gentlemen,
In this, my fortieth, annual report I beg to lay
before you the vital and mortal statistics of the Borough
of Bethnal Green for the year 1915.
POPULATION.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population
of the Borough of Bethnal Green for 1915 is 120,207
against 127,662 in the middle of 1914. This decrease
of 7,455 includes the estimated number of men who have
unlisted and also takes into account the normal decrease
of population based upon the census figures of 1901 and
1911.