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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 1909

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1909 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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Table: This table shews the total number of patients admitted into the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals from all parts of London during 1908, with the diseases from which they were suffering, and the percentage mortality in respect of each disease .—

This table shews the total number of patients admitted into the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals from all parts of London during 1908, with the diseases from which they were suffering, and the percentage mortality in respect of each disease .—

Disease.AdmissionsDischargesDeaths.Mortality per cent.
Scarlet Fever19,62920,4685202-56
Diphtheria5,2304,6795079-73
Enteric Fever5093948016-28
Typhus Fever22......
Cerebrospinal Meningitis31140-00
Other diseases (cases of mistaken diagnosis)2,5942,4371475-68
Total admissions ...27,96727,9811,255
1907 ......32,16929,5021,405

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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The total number of notification certificates received
at the office was 1,036, three of these referred to
addresses outside Bethnal Green and were of course
forwarded to the proper Sanitary Authority. Seventysix
(7.3 per cent.) were duplicates, so that the actual
number of cases of infectious disease reported and