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Bethnal Green 1920

Report on the health of the Borough during the year 1920

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ILLEGITIMACY.
Of the 3,857 births credited to this Borough, 89
were illegitimate, or 2.3 per cent, of the total.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths that were registered during
the year as having taken place in the Borough was
1,626.
Of these, 320 were of persons whose residence
was not in Bethnal Green, 315 dying in Bethnal
Green institutions, and 5 in other places in the
Borough.
There were also reported to the Registrar-
General 398 deaths of Bethnal Green persons who
died in institutions in other parts of London, and 11
who died in other parts of England and Wales.
This correction gives the net number of civil
deaths for Bethnal Green as 1,715, making an annual
death rate of 14 9 per 1,000 of civil population.

Death rates of previous years are:—

191416.0
191517.4
191615.3
191715.6
191824.1
(influenza pandemic)
191914.2

There were no uncertified deaths during the year.