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Bethnal Green 1870

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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locality in which are situated Trafalgar Place, Duke Street, Wellington
Street, Collingwood Street, and those small streets on the eastern confines
of our Parish.
While it was raging in this part, it still continued, though in a milder
degree, in the streets at the back of Shoreditch Church, and the northwest
portions of the Parish generally; nor is it passing away without
having visited the streets abutting on the Hackney Road, and also extending,
in an eastern direction, to Green Street, Digby Street, Cranbrook
Street, Globe Street, &c. In fact, no portion of the Parish wholly escaped,
and all the District Medical Officers had a large amount of additional
labour thrown upon them, as will be seen from Tables annexed:—

The number of New Cases of Small Pox attended by the District Medical Officers during the Quarter ending December 31 st, 1870, and the Deaths which took plact during the same period:—

OCTOBERNOVEMBERDECEMBERTotal.
81522295121926310172431
1. Massingham1143..110
2. Welch14262217
3. Richards112123432233936
4. Dkfhiez325453537141126593
5. Burgess1414215337233
6. Sarvis1412326221
Total Cases63798101792424284421210
Number of Deaths1133517766941467

During Quarter ending April 1 st, 1871:—

JANUARYFEBRUARYMARCHAPRILTotal.
7142128411182541118251
1. Massingham313351o1272241
2. Welch 565941546218251697
3. Richards 283310411135235978
4. Defuiez 16211216191413835343137
5. Bukgess 1934106844655
6. Sarvis .163853934678467
Total Cases28512940514250751647222440475
Number of Death:.12510131020911145171110147