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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 1860
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green, Parish of St. Matthew ]
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TABLE 10.
New Cases of Disease attended by the Poor-Law Medical Staff during the year 1860.
| DISTRICTS. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Workhouse. | TOTAL. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | 24 | 29 | 28 | 21 | 31 | .. | 133 |
| Chicken-pox | 5 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 41 |
| Measles | 14 | 63 | 24 | 116 | 86 | 36 | 339 |
| Scarlatina | 2 | 22 | 51 | 56 | 34 | .. | 165 |
| Whooping-cough | 3 | 25 | 13 | 32 | 34 | 1 | 108 |
| Croup | .. | 3 | 4 | .. | 1 | .. | 8 |
| Diarrhœa | 23 | 86 | 59 | 97 | 126 | 32 | 423 |
| Dysentery | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Ague | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 |
| Continued Fever | 86 | 125 | 61 | 112 | 69 | 69 | 522 |
| Rheumatic Fever | I | 3 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 38 |
| Erysipelas | 6 | 10 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 71 |
| Delirium Tremens | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Insanity | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 24 | 48 |
| Bronchitis and Catarrh | 24 | 153 | 139 | 192 | 288 | 13 | 809 |
| Diptheria | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Pleurisy | .. | 5 | 4 | 20 | 19 | .. | 48 |
| Pneumonia | 34 | 19 | 26 | 14 | 34 | 9 | 136 |
| Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 3 |
| Pyæmia | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Carbuncle | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 21 |
| All other Diseases | 407 | 686 | 436 | 728 | 697 | 870 | 3824 |
| Total | 635 | 1241 | 881 | 1438 | 1475 | 1075 | 6745 |
| Deaths | 13 | 63 | 49 | 128 | 76 | 182 | 511 |