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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 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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Table: The number of inhabitants to each sanitary inspector employed in the several sanitary districts of the county is shown in the following table:—

The number of inhabitants to each sanitary inspector employed in the several sanitary districts of the county is shown in the following table:—

Number of Sanitary Inspectors.No of inhabitants to each Sanitary Inspector.
PermanentTemporary.Total.
West—
Kensington6—627,720
Hammersmith6—616,206
Fulham3—330,547
Paddington3—339,279
Chelsea3—332,091
St. George, Hanover-square2239,181
Westminster3—318,508
St. James2—212,496
North—
Marylebone42623,730
Hampstead4—417,106
Pancras8829,305
Islington841226,620
Hackney52732,790
Central—
St. Giles557,956
St. Martin - in - the -Fields1343,643
Strand 2—212,553
Holborn 21311,168
Clerkenwell2—232,942
St. Luke2—221,205
London, City of11—113,409
East—
Shoreditch4—431,002
Bethnal Green3—343,045
Whitechapel4—418,605
St. Goorge-in-the-East3—315,182
limehouse3—319,199
Mile End Gld Town3—335,855
Poplar41533,339
South—
St. Saviour, Southwark2—213,581
St. George, Southwark3——319,904
Newington2—257,831
St. Olave1—112,694
Bermondsey2—242,344
Rotherhithe12313,025
Lambeth8—834,400
Bettersea7—721,494
Wandsworth11—1114,266
Camberwell9—926,146
Greenwich6—627,569
Lewisham32518,529
Woolwich3—313,616
Plumstead7—712,648
London1711718822,503