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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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Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
REPORT.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to lay before you my forty-second
annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition
of the Borough of Bethnal Green relating to the year
1916.
POPULATION

Table: In the abnormal circumstances created by the Continental war, estimates of population are necessarily vague. The following table shows the official figures for London and Bethnal Green during the three years 1914, 1915 and 1916

In the abnormal circumstances created by the Continental war, estimates of population are necessarily vague. The following table shows the official figures for London and Bethnal Green during the three years 1914, 1915 and 1916

Year.Bethnal Green.London.
1914127,6624,516,612
1915120,2074,310,030
1916115,5524,237,387

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The instructions contained in the subjoined letter
from Somerset House have been complied with in computing
the statistics throughout this report.