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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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BIRTHS.
The children born alive in Bethnal Green during the
year numbered 3,314, but in addition to the local births,
I have received information from the Registrar-General
that during the year, 200 infants were born of Bethnal
Green mothers in some one or other of the Metropolitan
institutions where maternity cases are admitted. The
details of these transferable births are given below, and
the adjustment of the total number is as follows :—
Births in the Borough 3314
London Hospital 99
City of London Lying-in Hospital 38
Whitechapel Infirmary 19
East End Mothers' Home 20
Jewish Maternity and Nursing Institution,
Underwood Street 15
Middlesex Hospital 2
Various places 7
— 200
3514
Outward Transfers
Net total of Bethnal Green births 3514
DEATHS.
In accordance with instructions received from the
Registrar-General the deaths referred to in this report
relate exclusively to the civil population; deaths of
officers and men of the armed forces of this and other
nations admitted to institutions for the sick,or dying at