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APPENDIX III.
VITAL STATISTICS
For the Quarter ended 30th March, 1929.
DEATHS.
During this period, the number of deaths recorded as
belonging to Bethnal Green was 628, which is equivalent to an
average annual death rate of 21.3 per 1,000 of the population,
and compares with an average annual death rate of 14.9 for
the corresponding quarters in the five previous years. The
General Death Rate for the County of London for the quarter
was 23.9.
The principal causes of death during the quarter were as
follows:—
Enteric Fever 1
Measles 1
Whooping Cough 12
Influenza 55
Meningococal Meningitis 2
Tuberculosis of Respiratory
System 41
Cancer 36
Rheumatic Fever 6
Diabetes 3
Cerebral Haemorrhage, &c. 14
Heart Disease 164
Arterio Sclerosis 7
Bronchitis 72
Pneumonia 111
Other Respiratory Diseases 9
Ulcer of the Stomach, &c. 1
Diarrhœa 4
Appendicitis 1
Cirrhosis of Liver 2
Nephritis 14
Congen. Debility and Premature
Birth 9
Suicide 6
Other Deaths from Violence 6
Other Defined Diseases 51
POPULATION.
The death rate is calculated on a population of 117,900,
this being the Registrar-General's estimate of the population of
the Borough in the middle of the year 1927.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered during the period under
review was 396, which is equivalent to an average annual birth
rate of 13.4 per 1,000 of the population, and compares with
17.4, the average for the corresponding quarters in the five
previous years. The birth rate for the County of London for
the quarter was 17.1.