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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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Table L shows the percentage of deaths from each
disease on the total number of Zymotic deaths.
TABLE L.
| Measles | caused 128 deaths, | 20.40 per cent. or 1 | in 3.4 deaths. |
| Scarlatina | ,, 6 ,, | 1.38 ,, ,, | 72.5 ,, |
| Diphtheria | ,, 24 ,, | 5.51 „ ,, | 18.1 „ |
| Whooping Cough | „ 44 ,, | 10.12 | 9.9 „ |
| Enteric Fever | ,, 3 „ | 0.69 ,, ,, | 145.0 „ |
| Diarrhoea | ,, 230 „ | 52.90 | 1.9 „ |
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
During the year, two additional diseases were,
with the consent of the Local Government Board,
included in the list made compulsorily notifiable under
Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891;
these were Polio-Myelitis (infantile paralysis) and
Ophthalmia Neonatorum (inflamation of the outer
membrane of the eye in new-born infants). The order
making Chicken-pox notifiable expired on June 21st,
and was not renewed.
The gross number of certificates forwarded to me
by Medical Practitioners under the Act was 1,024;
a few of these were sent under a misapprehension as to
the boundaries of the Borough, and were, of course,
referred to the proper authority; 125 certificates
(12.3 per cent) were duplicates, so that the actual
number of cases of infectious disease reported and