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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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VITAL STATISTICS.
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR
THE YEAR.
BIRTHS.
Males Females TOTAL Birth Rate
Legitimate 727 684 1,460 14.3
Illegitimate 26 23 1'460 14.3
DEATHS.
Males Females TOTAL Death Rate
634 573 1,207 11.8
When corrected by the Comparability Factor of the
Registrar-General (1.13), the Death Rate becomes 13.3.
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of,
childbirth :—
Rate por 1,000
total (live & still)
births.
From Sepsis 1 .6
From other puerperal causes 2 1.3
INFANT MORTALITY.
Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000
births :—
Legitimate 66.6 72.6
Illegitimate 244.9)
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 34
Whooping Cough (all ages) 8
Diarrhoea (under two years of age) 32