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Bethnal Green 1880

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

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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE III.
DEATHS REGISTERED AT SEVERAL GROUPS OF AGES FROM DIFFERENT CAUSES DURING THE YEAR 1880.
Note.—The Deaths in Public Institutions of non.Residents are excluded.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Under
3 months.
AGES.
Total.
0
to
1
1
to
2
2
to
5
5
to
15
15
to
25
25
to
35
35
to
45
45
to
55
55
to
65
65
to
75
75
to
85
85
to
95
95
and upwards.
Total
under
5 years
CLASSES.
I
Zymotic Diseases
53
165
135
145
68
13
5
13
7
3
6
2
..
..
498
615
II
Constitutional Diseases
10
83
61
35
26
57
88
92
58
43
16
7
..
..
189
576
III
Local Diseases
115
153
126
69
50
31
51
78
116
173
149
62
8
..
463
1181
IV.
Developmental Diseases
152
71
26
6
2
2
10
8
8
48
70
19
1
..
255
423
V.
Violent Deaths
22
27
3
10
7
1
..
6
6
2
1
2
..
..
62
87
Not specified or ill defined
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
1
Totals l
353
493
351
265
153
104
154
197
195
269
242
92
9
• •
1468
2883
CLASS I.—Zymotic Diseases.
Order 1.—Miasmatic
1
Smallpox
2
3
1
2
7
2
1
2
..
..
..
..
..
..
8
20
2
Measles
1
4
16
10
3
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
31
34
3
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)
..
9
17
50
36
2
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
76
114
4
Diphtheria
..
1
..
5
1
11
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
6
8
5
Quinsy
..
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
1
6
Croup
• f
8
5
20
2
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
33
35
7
Whooping Cough
6
46
48
36
4
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
136
140
8
Typhus Fever
..
..
..
..
..
2
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
3
Enteric or Typhoid F.
..
..
..
4
8
5
2
2
..
..
..
..
..
4
21
Simple continued F.
..
..
2
3
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
4
6
9
Erysipelas
3
3
..
4
..
1
..
..
1
..
..
2
..
..
10
14
10
Puerperal Fever (see Childbirth)
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..