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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 1911
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1911 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The deaths from diseases compulsorily notifiable
under Sec. 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
numbered 51, against 62 in 1910, a decrease of 12.
Nearly all the fever and diphtheria deaths occurred in
hospital, as will be seen from the following table which
includes measles, sufferers from which are now admitted
to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals,
although this disease is not at present notifiable:-
TABLE I.
| Disease. | Deaths at Home. | Deaths in Hospitals. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | — | 6 | 6 |
| Diphtheria | 1 | 23 | 24 |
| Enteric Fever | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Erysipelas | 7 | — | 7 |
| Puerperal Fever | — | 3 | 3 |
| Measles | 96 | 32 | 128 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 1 | 6 | 7 |
THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
As previously referred to under the heading of
infantile deaths, there was, during the Autumn of 1911,
an epidemic of diarrhœal diseases. By direction of the
Local Government Board, deaths from Enteritis are
now to be classed as from Diarrhœa; therefore the