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Bethnal Green 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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In the following table the mortality rates for London and
Bethnal Green are compared by quarters.
TABLE 6.
London.
Bethnal Green.
March Quarter
28.2
31.20
June Quarter
18.9
19.81
September Quarter
17.1
19.55
December Quarter
18.5
23.33
The following tables (extracted from the Registrar General's
Annual Summary), give the corrected Birth and Death Rates of
persons belonging to London, and to its groups of Registration
Districts, for the year 1892. The Hospital deaths have been
distributed to the Sanitary Areas from which the deceased inmates
were admitted, while non-residents, who died in Public Institutions
inside London, have been excluded.