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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 1858
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green, Parish of St. Matthew ]
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| Parish of Bethnal Green. | Small Pox. | Chicken Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Continued Fever (Typhus & Typhoid) | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Pyæmia. | Puerperal Fever. | Carbuncle. | Acnte Pulmonary Inflamations. | Croup. | Eheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Delirium Tremens. | Insanity. | Diptheria. | All other Diseases. | Total. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleurisy. | Pneumonia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| District No. 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 26 | 83 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 75 | 10 | 37 | .. | 11 | .. | 6 | .. | 4 | .. | 350 | 626 | 10 |
| „ „ 2 | 7 | 1 | 26 | 25 | 15 | 66 | 155 | .. | 16 | .. | .. | 1 | 149 | 2 | 13 | .. | 7 | .. | 4 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 706 | 1209 | 81 |
| „ „ 3 | 19 | 1 | 37 | 21 | 10 | 78 | 77 | .. | 12 | .. | .. | 5 | 40 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 19 | .. | 7 | .. | .. | 1 | 825 | 1173 | 72 |
| „ „ 4 | 53 | 3 | 44 | 31 | 32 | 126 | 143 | .. | 14 | .. | 1 | 1 | 222 | 14 | 80 | .. | 21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 860 | 1658 | 91 |
| „ „ 5 | 23 | 9 | 95 | 110 | 41 | 149 | 86 | .. | 8 | .. | 2 | 2 | 202 | 9 | 21 | .. | 22 | 2 | 4 | .. | 10 | .. | 625 | 1420 | 70 |
| Workhouse | .. | 2 | 52 | 1 | 2 | 42 | 139 | .. | 10 | .. | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | .. | 7 | .. | .. | 1 | 25 | .. | 962 | 1258 | 215 | |
| Total | 103 | 18 | 262 | 196 | 101 | 487 | 683 | .. | 64 | .. | 6 | 11 | 695 | 37 | 171 | 2 | 87 | 7 | 23 | 3 | 52 | 8 | 4328 | 7344 | 539 |