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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 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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Summary.
1881. 1882.
Estimated Population of Bethnal Green—Adults 127,180 128,000
Estimated Population of Bethnal Green—Young Children under
5 years 19,209 19,300
Area—755 Acres. Number of Inhabited Houses 17,739 17,739
Average Number of Persons to each House 7.2 7.2
Average Number of Persons to each Acre 179.4 169.5
Total number of Deaths in the year 3,054 3,094
Total number of Births in the year 5,237 5,256
Marriage Rate 20.4 20.3
Death Rate 24.0 21.4
Birth Rate 41.1 41.0
Infantile Death Rate (on Births) 153.5 164.7
Young Children's Death Rate (on estimated number of Young
Children) 78.0 82.6
Zymotic Death Rate 5.2 4.4