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 during the year 1903
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TABLE V.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the 10 years 1893 to 1902, and in the year 1903.
DISEASE. | 1893, | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | 1902. | Annual Average of 10 years, 1893-1902. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 10 years, 1892-1902. | 1903. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1903. |
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Small-pox | 7 | 5 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 64 | 8 | 2.8 | _ | — |
Measles | 82 | 135 | 110 | 149 | 109 | 151 | 90 | 63 | 84 | 59 | 103 | 36.3 | 85 | 36.9 |
Scarlet Fever | 71 | 27 | 30 | 40 | 24 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 44 | 19 | 28 | 9.9 | 13 | 5.5 |
Diphtheria | 137 | 133 | 102 | 77 | 87 | 64 | 64 | 60 | 63 | 33 | 82 | 28.9 | 26 | 11.0 |
Whooping Cough | 59 | 70 | 33 | 151 | 53 | 110 | 44 | 93 | 38 | 89 | 74 | 26.1 | 41 | 17.3 |
Fever | 26 | 26 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 38 | 18 | 20 | 15 | 22 | 77 | 12 | 5.1 | |
Diarrhœa | 128 | 54 | 146 | 109 | 151 | 143 | 157 | 103 | 119 | 60 | 117 | 412 | 112 | 47.4 |
Total in Bethnal Green | 510 | 450 | 442 | 547 | 444 | 496 | 402 | 349 | 370 | 339 | 434 | 153.0 | 289 | 123.2 |