Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1894
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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE V. Shewing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the ten years 1884 to 1893 and in the year 1894.
DISEASE. | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | Annual Average of ten years, 1884—1893. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in ten years, 1884-1893. | 1894 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1894. |
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Small Pox | 99 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 13.5 | 4.4 | 5 | 1.9 |
Measles | 37 | 163 | 108 | 73 | 124 | 132 | 106 | 100 | 131 | 82 | 105.6 | 35.0 | 135 | 51.1 |
Scarlet Fever | 100 | 62 | 35 | 61 | 120 | 40 | 34 | 29 | 53 | 71 | 60.5 | 20.1 | 27 | 10.2 |
Diphtheria | 14 | 19 | 21 | 26 | 52 | 102 | 133 | 69 | 119 | 137 | 69.2 | 23.0 | 133 | 50.3 |
Whooping Cough | 142 | 92 | 148 | 101 | 167 | 62 | 113 | 128 | 122 | 59 | 113.4 | 37.6 | 70 | 26.5 |
Fever | 49 | 21 | 29 | 31 | 21 | 21 | 29 | 19 | 22 | 26 | 26.8 | 8.9 | 26 | 98 |
Diarrhœa | 137 | 84 | 166 | 123 | 67 | 95 | 94 | 77 | 74 | 128 | 104.5 | 34.7 | 54 | 20.4 |
Total in Bethnal Green | 678 | 463 | 507 | 416 | 552 | 452 | 509 | 422 | 526 | 510 | 493.5 | 163.7 | 450 | 170.2 |
Total in London | 13,629 | 11,261 | 11,121 | 12,684 | 10,803 | 9,708 | 12,279 | 9,675 | 11,983 | 13,091 | 11,623.4 |