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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 1899
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1899
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DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
Twelve hundred and sixty, that is 43 per cent. of the total deaths
from all causes, were those of children aged less than five years,
giving a proportion equivalent to a rate of 70.0, calculated upon the
estimated population of young children.
ELDERLY PERSONS DEATH RATE.
The deaths of elderly persons, that is to say, people over 65 years
of age, numbered 507. This gives a rate of 106.8 per thousand,
calculated upon the estimated population of persons over that age.
WEEKLY MORTALITY CHARTS.
The Chart shews the number of deaths week by week, corrected
by the inclusion of hospital deaths outside the parish, and the
exclusion of the deaths of non-parishioners occurring in Bethnal
Green.
SPECIAL CAUSES OF DEATH.
Table III. is prepared from the weekly mortality returns of the
Sub-District Registrars, and from the monthly returns of extra
parochial institution deaths received from Somerset House. At the
foot of the table is shewn a mortality rate for each of the diseases
or groups of diseases therein enumerated.