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Bethnal Green 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green, Parish of St. Matthew ]
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the highest rates 2.84 in St. George Southwark, 2 88 in
St. Olave Southwark, 2 99 in St. Giles, 3T1 in St. Luke,
3.22 in St. Saviour Southwark, and 3.36 in Strand.
Infant mortality in London during 1897, measured by the
proportion of deaths under 1 year of age to registered
births, was equal to 158 per 1,000, and slightly exceeded
the mean rate in the ten preceding years. The lowest
rates of infant mortality were 116 in Plumstead, 121 in
Stoke Newington, 127 in Hampstead, 129 in Lewisham,
133 in St. George Hanover Square and in City of London,
and 135 in Wandsworth ; while they ranged upwards in
the other sanitary areas to 183 in Shoreditch, 184 in
Holborn and in Clerkenwell, 189 in St. George Southwark,
190 in Berrnondsey, 193 in Limehouse, 193 in St. Saviour
Southwark, and 197 in St. George.in.the.East.
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