Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE V.
1870
DISEASE. | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1870—1879. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 yrs., 1870—1879. | 1880 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1880. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 2 | 252 | 269 | 41 | 7 | 1 | 31 | 88 | 55 | 7 | 75.3 | 25.3 | 51 | 17.5 |
Measles | 76 | 38 | 82 | 43 | 192 | 25 | 56 | 142 | 59 | 106 | 81.9 | 27.5 | 34 | 11.6 |
Scarlet Fever | 452 | 107 | 41 | 17 | 103 | 193 | 80 | 93 | 68 | 76 | 123.0 | 41.3 | 114 | 39.1 |
Diphtheria | 16 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 7.1 | 2.3 | 8 | 2.7 |
Whooping Cough | 172 | 66 | 118 | 147 | 101 | 151 | 61 | 89 | 192 | 147 | 124.4 | 41.7 | 140 | 48.0 |
Fever | 93 | 77 | 63 | 44 | 58 | 68 | 42 | 48 | 51 | 56 | 60.0 | 20.1 | 37 | 12.6 |
Diarrhœa | 148 | 164 | 159 | 143 | 159 | 124 | 112 | 104 | 86 | 70 | 126.9 | 42.6 | 169 | 57.9 |
Total in Bethnal Green | 959 | 706 | 734 | 441 | 625 | 567 | 385 | 572 | 525 | 474 | 598.6 | 200 8 | 553 | 189.4 |
Total in London | 16476 | 19455 | 12669 | 11385 | 11230 | 13411 | 12565 | 12292 | 14734 | 12256 | 13647.3 |