Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1903.

  • Bethnal Green (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1903. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    32 Having given careful consideration to the whole question and to the representations made in the several communications which have been addressed to the Managers on the subject from time to time during the past two years, we have come to the conclusion that the question of the establish ment of sanatoria for consumptive patients is one which calls for an authoritative expression of opinion on the part of the Local Government Board. We accordingly recommend the Managers to adopt the following resolution, viz.:- That the Managers, having duly considered the question of the proposed establishment of sanatoria for consumptive patients and the letters received from the Local Government Board and the various Metropolitan Local Authorities and Medical Officers of Health in regard thereto, are of opinion that the matter is one of such vital and far reaching importance to the community at large, and the proposal one which, if adopted by the Managers, would entail so considerable an extension of their duties and responsibilities, and so large an increase in their expenditure, as to call for some authoritative expression of opinion by the chief health authority of the country,' viz., the Local Government Board, before the Managers are asked to take any definite action in the matter or to make any further inquiries in regard thereto ; and that the Local Government Board, the several Boards of Guardians, the Borough Councils, and the Medical Officers of Health be so informed. [Adopted]. (Signed) R. STRONG, Chairman. RESPIRATORY DISEASES. The deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive of Phthisis, numbered 502, and formed twenty-one per cent of the total mortality from all causes. This is equal to a rate of 3•8 per thousand population at all ages. Half the respiratory deaths (252) were amongst young children, a mortality of 14'2 on the estimated population under five. MALIGNANT DISEASE. Cancerous diseases caused 109 deaths, almost entirely amongst persons aged over twenty-five years. The estimated number of inhabitants of Bethnal Green aged over twenty-five years is 56,820, on this number we shew a cancer mortality of 1•86.