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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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Table: The birth-rates in the four quarters of the year were:—

The birth-rates in the four quarters of the year were:—

First Quarter23.7
Second „22.0
Third „21.3
Fourth „21.5

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Of the 2,640 births, 1,314 were those of males,
and 1,326 those of females.
ILLEGITIMACY.
Of the 2,640 births credited to this Borough, 59
were illegitimate, being 27 males and 32 females, and
being 2-2 per cent, of the total number of births.
STILLBIRTHS.
Forty-seven stillbirths were brought to notice,
being a proportion of 1-8 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
1,446.
Of these, 304 were of persons whose residence
was not in Bethnal Green, 301 dying in Bethnal
Green Institutions and 3 in other places in the
Borough.
There were also reported to the Registrar-General
334 deaths of Bethnal Green persons who died in
institutions in other parts of London, and 10 who
died in other parts of England and Wales.