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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 1880
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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SUMMARY (1880).
Population of Bethnal Green 127,000
Area—755 Acres. Number of Inhabited Houses 17,721
Average number of Persons to each House 7.1
Average number of Persons to each Acre 168.2
Total number of Deaths in the year 2,914
Total number of Births in the year 5,201
Marriage Rate 19.4
Death Rate 23.0
Birth Rate 40.9
Infantile Death Rate (on Births) 163.8
Young Children's Death Rate (on estimated number of Young Children) 76.4
Old People's Death Rate (on estimated number of Old People) 70.3
Zymotic Death Rate 4.3