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The foregoing figures, based on the weekly returns
of the local registrars, give the net number of deaths
for Bethnal Green as 1,332, making an annual deathrate
of 11.3 per 1,000 of population, the same as the
previous lowest ever recorded in the Borough (1923).
I have, however, received from the RegistrarGeneral
a statement of the deaths belonging to the
Borough for the calendar year to the number of 1,339.
The discrepancy is not sufficient to affect the deathrate.
The death-rate for Bethnal Green, 11.3, compares
with 11.9 for the County of London and 12.3 for
England and Wales as a whole.
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 as classified by the Registrar General,
are given in the accompanying table.