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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 1916
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1916
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BIRTH RATE.
The births actually registered in Bethnal Green during
the year, together with the balance of the transferable
births notified by the Registrar-General, totalled 3,438.
This gives a birth rate of 27.35 per thousand population
(125,723), a figure which is practically identical with that
of the previous year. The general London rate stands
at 23.4 per thousand.
TABLE G. MARRIAGES, 1916.
| First Quarter | 256 |
| Second Quarter | 337 |
| Third Quarter | 229 |
| Fourth Quarter | 277 |
| Total | 1,099 |
These figures indicate a marriage rate of 19.0 to
every thousand persons. The London marriage rate was
20.7.
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
2 per cent, of the total of deaths at all
ages were those of infants under one year. These numbered
365, giving an infantile death rate of 106 per thousand
births, a very considerable decrease on the figure
for 1915, which was 118. The general Metropolitan infantile
death rate has fallen to 87 as against 110 for the
previous year.