Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green, Parish of St. Matthew ]
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living, 83 per 1000 died below five years, 10 between five
and ten, 4 in the next ten, 9 in the following twenty, 11 between
forty and sixty, 61 between sixty and eighty, and
161 between eighty and a hundred years. The fatality
therein is smaller to infants than in 1857, and less to the old
than in 1857—58.
Respectively in the Sub-Districts, the Births and Deaths
affected each population thus:—In the Hackney Road there
was a Birth to each 26, in the Green to each 27, in the
Church to each 28, and in the Town to each 24. Correspondingly,
in Sub-District 1, there was a death to every 45;
in Sub-District 2, to every 33; in Sub-District 3, to every 51;
and to Sub-District 4, to every 48, So likewise under the
age of five, out of every 73, 81, 91 and 76 inhabitants, each in
rotation lost a child. In regard to longevity, 16 60 years
constituted the mean age in the Hackney Road, 28.83 years
in the Green, 20.08 years in the Church, and 17.06 years in
the Town; while of adults the lifetime was 50.56 in the first
Sub-Division, 53.46 in the second 52.14, in the third, and
47.29 years in the fourth. Consumption caused to each in
succession 1 out of every 11, 8, 14 and 19 deaths; Fever 1
out of 14,20,13 and 19; and the Epidemic Diseases 1 out of
3, 4, 3 and 4. More Males by 17 died in the Hackney Road,
more Females by 13 in the Green, more Males by 6 in the
Church, and more Females by 15 in the Town.
Of 130 Adult Weavers, Male and Female, 38 passed over
seventy, and 15 over eighty years; they lived to a mean
length of 61.78, or nearly ten years longer than the average
generally of the dying adults. Six of them resided in the
Hackney Road, 58 in the Green, 43 in the Church, and 23
in the Town. Consumption destroyed 14, and the Epidemics
10; 5 went off suddenly, and 1 was "found dead from exhaustion."
Four, or 1 in 33, committed Suicide, whereas