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 Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1902
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BETHNAL GREEN.—TABLE V. Shewing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the ten years, 1892 to 1901, and in the year 1902.
Disease. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | Annual Average of 10 years, 1892 to 1901. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1892 to 1901. | 1902. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths from all causes in 1902. |
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Small Pox | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 0˙7 | 64 | 23˙3 |
Measles | 131 | 82 | 135 | 110 | 149 | 109 | 151 | 90 | 63 | 84 | 110 | 38˙5 | 59 | 21˙4 |
Scarlet Fever | 53 | 71 | 27 | 30 | 40 | 24 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 44 | 32 | 11˙2 | 19 | 6˙9 |
Diphtheria | 119 | 137 | 133 | 102 | 77 | 87 | 64 | 64 | 60 | 63 | 90 | 31˙5 | 33 | 12˙0 |
Whooping Cough | 122 | 59 | 70 | 33 | 151 | 53 | 110 | 44 | 93 | 38 | 77 | 26˙9 | 89 | 32˙4 |
Fever | 22 | 26 | 26 | 17 | 21 | 20 | 17 | 38 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 7˙7 | 15 | 5˙4 |
Diarrhœa | 74 | 128 | 54 | 146 | 109 | 151 | 143 | 157 | 103 | 119 | 118 | 41˙4 | 60 | 21˙8 |
Total in Bethnal Green. | 526 | 510 | 450 | 442 | 547 | 444 | 496 | 402 | 349 | 370 | 451 | 157˙9 | 339 | 123˙4 |