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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 1925
[Report on the health of the Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1925]
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The death-rates for the last ten years are as
follow:—
1916 15.3
1917 15.8
1918 23.9 (Influenza pandemic)
1919 13.9
1920 14.6
1921 12.9
1922 15.3
1923 11.3
1924 12.4
1925 12.0
The death-rates in the four quarters of the year
were:—
First Quarter 13.2
Second „ 11.0
Third „ 10.0
Fourth „ 13.8
The death-rate for Bethnal Green, 12.0, compares
with 11.7 for the County of London.
Infantile mortality and the mortality from tuberculosis
and other infectious diseases are subjects of
comment in other parts of this Report.
The causes of death among the population of
Bethnal Green are classified in the following table :—