Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE II.
Shewing the Annual Birth Rate, Rate of Mortality, Death Rate among Children, and Deaths in Public Institutions
for the year 1888, and ten years preceding.
YEAR.
Birth Rate
per 1000 of the
Population.
Annual Rate of
Mortality
per 1000 living.
Deaths of Children
under 1 year: per
centage of Total
Deaths.
Per centage of
Deaths of
Children under
1 year to
Registered Births.
Deaths of Children
under 5 years: per
centage of Total
Deaths.
Total Number
of Deaths in
Public
Institutions.
1888
37.82
22.65
26.03
15.60
48.78
556
1878
41.52
23.66
26.58
15.15
48.16
465
1879
42.07
24.02
25.94
14.94
47.59
526
1880
41.12
22.80
29.48
16.34
50.85
472
1881
41.24
24.05
26.29
15.33
49.25
515
1882
41.16
24.23
27.99
16.85
51.58
486
1883
41.37
23.93
27.77
16.24
51.30
516
1884
41.62
22.87
28.60
15.70
50.60
512
1885
39.96
22.08
26.31
14.54
42.56
534
1886
40.00
23.45
29.21
17.10
49.77
532
1887
38.41
22.45
27.90
16.31
48.40
598
Average of 10 years, 1878 to 1887
40.84
23.35
27.60
15.85
49.00
515