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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 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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Infant mortality in London, measured by the proportion of
deaths under 1 year of age to registered births, was equal to
166 per 1000, and exceeded by 11 per 1,000 the mean rate in
the ten preceding years. The lowest rates of infant mortality
were 108 in Stoke Newington, 120 in St. George Hanover
Square, 125 in Hampstead, 128 in City of London, and 132
in Marylebone and in St. Olave Southwark; while they
ranged upwards in the other sanitary areas to 191 in Poplar,
195 in St. George-in-the-East, 196 in Clerkenwell and in
Shoreditch, 208 in Limehouse, 211 in St. Saviour Southwark,
and 221 in Holborn."