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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 1910
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1910 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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TABLE P. Condition of Premises wherein Cases of Infectious Disease have occurred during 1910.
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satisfactory | 133 | 91 | 49 | |
| W.C.'s or apparatus defective | 10 | 8 | 5 | |
| Internal drainage defective | 5 | 1 | 2 | |
| External drainage defective | 3 | 13 | 5 | |
| Minor Insanitary defects | 66 | 59 | 28 | |
| Single room tenements | 16 | 19 | 10 | |
| Overcrowded | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
SCARLET FEVER.
Deaths 9. (Decennial average 26).
A very mild type of Scarlet Fever prevailed during
the year, and only 236 cases were reported, not half so
many as in the previous year. All the patients except
fourteen were removed to hospital, where nine died. I
visited the cases remaining at home and satisfied myself
that they were sufficiently isolated. All of these recovered.
The case fatality on the whole number
treated in hospital was 4.5 per cent. Twenty of the
patients removed to hospital were found not to be
suffering from scarlet fever and are therefore excluded
from this calculation.