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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 1923
Report on the health of the Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1923
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STILLBIRTHS.
Fifty-eight stillbirths were brought to notice,
being a proportion of 2 per cent, of all births, live
and dead.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths that were registered during
the year as having taken place in the Borough was
1,275.
Of these, 282 were of persons whose residence
was not in Bethnal Green, 277 dying in Bethnal
Green Institutions and 5 in other places in the
Borough.
There were also reported to the Registrar-General
340 deaths of Bethnal Green persons who died in
institutions in other parts of London, and 7 who
died in other parts of England and Wales.
This correction gives the net number of deaths
for Bethnal Green as 1,340, making an annual deathrate
of 11.3 per 1,000 of population.
The death-rates for the last eight years are as follow:—
| 1916 | 15.3 |
| 1917 | 15.8 |
| 1918 | 23.9 (Influenza pandemic) |
| 1919 | 13.9 |
| 1920 | 14.6 |
| 1921 | 12.9 |
| 1922 | 15.3 |
| 1923 | 11.3 |
The death-rates in the four quarters of the year were:—
| First Quarter | 12.5 |
| Second „ | 10.2 |
| Third „ | 10.1 |
| Fourth „ | 12.4 |