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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 1924
Special report on an outbreak of Typhoid Fever in the Borough of Bethnal Green in 1924
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DEATHS IN INSTITUTIONS.
The extent to which the deaths of the inhabitants
of the Borough take place in institutions may be seen
from the following table:—
Institutions in the Borough.
| Bethnal Green Hospital (Poor Law) | 527 |
| Waterloo House (Poor Law) | 42 |
| Queen's Hospital | 39 |
| Chest Hospital, Victoria Park | 20 |
| Mildmay Mission Hospital | 15 |
| 643 | |
| Institutions out of the Borough. | |
| London Hospital | 100 |
| Other General Hospitals | 52 |
| Maternity Hospitals | 12 |
| M.A.B. Hospitals | 73 |
| Poor Law Hospitals | 17 |
| Sanatoria | 13 |
| Mental Hospitals | 49 |
| Hostels for the Dying | 4 |
| Other Places | 12 |
| 332 | |
| Total | 975 |
From these figures it will be seen that of the
1,486 deaths during the year, 975, or 65-6 per cent,
took place in institutions.