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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 1894
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1894
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TABLE F.
| Small Pox | 1.11 per cent., or 1 in 90.00 deaths. |
| Measles | 30.00 „ „ 3.33 „ |
| Scarlatina | 6.00 „ „ 16.67 „ |
| Diphtheria | 29.55 „ „ 3.38 |
| Whooping Cough | 15.55 „ „ 6.43 „ |
| Typhus Fever | ... „ „ ... „ |
| Enteric Fever | 5.77 „ „ 17.31 „ |
| Simple Fever | ... „ „ ... „ |
| Diarrhoea | 12.00 „ „ 8.33 |
This table shows the percentage of deaths from each disease as
compared with the total number of Zymotic deaths.
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
A total of 1,582 notification certificates have been received during
the year. Twenty-four of the certificates were duplicate notifications,
that is to say the case was reported by more than one Medical man.
Particulars of the number of cases, month by month, together
with the Hospital admissions and discharges are shown in the accompanying
table. The usual spot maps indicating the distribution
of the cases are also submitted.
In his Annual Report for 1894, Dr. Goodall, the Medical Superintendent
of the Eastern Hospitals, mentions that he has ascertained
that during the past year in about 3.7 of the cases certified Scarlet
Fever, in 17.5 per cent, of those certified Diphtheria, and in 25.8 of
those certified Enterica, the patients were found, upon further
observation, not to be suffering from those diseases. These figures
are in excess of previous years. In the case of Diphtheria the increased
percentage of error is due largely to the fact that during the
latter part of the year Bacteriological means of diagnosis were freely