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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 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green, Parish of St. Matthew ]
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TABLE 9.
New Cases of Disease attended by the Poor-Law Medical Staff, during the year 1857.
| Parish of Bethnal Green. | Small Pox. | Chicken Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Continued Fever (Typhus & Typhoid) | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Pyaemia. | Puerperal Fever. | Carbuncle. | Acute Pulmonary Inflammations. | Croup. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Dehirium Tremens. | Insanity. | Diptheria. | All other Diseases. | Total. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleurisy. | Pneumonia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| District No. 1 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 4 | 21 | 82 | 86 | * | 3 | 1 | 67 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 427 | 746 | 11 | ||||||||
| „ 2 „ | 1 | — | 23 | 24 | 32 | 129 | 120 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 65 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 620 | 1044 | 67 | ||||
| „ 3 „. | 4 | 2 | 21 | 25 | 3 | 170 | 87 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 14 | 25 | 1 | 3 | 751 | 1137 | 43 | ||||||
| 1 | 9 | 77 | 37 | 47 | 190 | 83 | 10 | 2 | 149 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 772 | 1412 | 67 | ||||||
| 16 | — | 76 | 17 | 34 | 137 | 90 | 11 | 2 | 101 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 551 | 1079 | 59 | ||||||
| Workhouse | — | 1 | — | 4 | 63 | 128 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1121 | 1354 | 201 | ||||||
| Total | 24 | 12 | 223 | 107 | 141 | 771 | 594 | 37 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 403 | 14 | 76 | 4 | 78 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 4242 | 6772 | 448 | |
| *The Diseases to the right of the Fever column were not recorded until April; nor those beyond Dysentery until September. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||