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Bethnal Green 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE I.
Shelving the Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths, and Marriages,
f«r the year 1888, and ten years preceding.
GROSS NUMBERS.
The Year.
Estimated
Population.
No. of
Inhabited
Houses.
Marriages.
Registered
Births.
Corrected Number of
Deaths.
Deaths
in
Public
Institutions.
Total
all
Ages
Under
One
Year.
Under
Five
Years.
1888
130,500
• •
• •
4936
2958
770
1443
556
1878
125,110
17 325
2438
5195
2951
787
1426
465
1879
125,790
17,475
2443
5246
3022
784
1438
526
1880
126,470
17,721
2463
5201
2883
850
1466
472
1881
127,000
17,739
2603
5237
3054
803
1504
515
1882
127,685
17,739
2602
5256
3094
886
1596
486
1883
128,370
17,739
2602
5310
3072
853
1576
516
1884
129 055
17,739
2581
5475
3009
862
1523
512
1885
129 055
17,739
2532
5158
2850
750
1213
534
1886
129,895
18,493
2437
5194
3040
888
1533
532
1887
129,895
18,493
2415
4989
2917
814
1412
598
Average of ten years,
1878 to 1887.
127,833
17,820
2511
5226
2989
827
1468
515
NOTES.
1. Population at census, 1881—126,901.
2. Area in Acres, 755.
3. Average number of persons in each house at census, 7.2.