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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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Condition of Premises wherein Cases of Infectious Disease have occurred during 1909.
| Scarlet Fever. | Diptheria. | Enteric Fever. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satisfactory | 322 | 93 | 5 | |
| W.C.'s or apparatus defective | 28 | 6 | — | |
| Internal drainage defective | — | 1 | — | |
| External drainage defective | 12 | - | — | |
| Minor Insanitary defects | 171 | 52 | 7 | |
| Single room tenements | 42 | 23 | 1 | |
SCARLET FEVER.
Death 25. (Decennial average 25).
The type of Scarlet Fever prevalent during the year
was mild and only 565 cases were reported, half as
many as in the previous year ; 556 of the sufferers
were removed to hospital where twenty-five of them
died. Nine slight cases remained at home and all of
them recovered. All the removals except three were
taken to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals.
The case fatality on the whole number treated in
hospital was 4.5. Twenty nine of the patients removed
to hospital were found not to be suffering from scarlet
fever, and are therefore not taken into consideration
in these figures. All but one of the fatal cases were
amongst young children aged less than five years. The
scarlet fever death rate is equal to 0.2 per thousand,
whilst that of London is 0.08.