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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Shewing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the
10 years 1873 to 1882, and in the year 1883.
DISEASE. | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1873—1882. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10yrs., 1873—1882. | 1883 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1883. |
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Small Pox...... | 41 | 7 | 1 | 31 | 88 | 55 | 7 | 51 | 118 | 7 | 40.6 | 13.58 | 1 | 0.30 |
Measles | 43 | 192 | 25 | 56 | 142 | 59 | 106 | 34 | 185 | 58 | 90.0 | 30.11 | 128 | 41.66 |
Scarlet Fever | 17 | 103 | 193 | 80 | 93 | 68 | 76 | 114 | 82 | 138 | 96.4 | 32.25 | 174 | 50.64 |
Diphtheria | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 8.1 | 2.71 | 13 | 4.23 |
Whooping Cough | 147 | 101 | 151 | 61 | 89 | 192 | 147 | 140 | 102 | 229 | 135.9 | 45.47 | 42 | 13.67 |
Fever | 44 | 58 | 68 | 42 | 48 | 51 | 56 | 37 | 59 | 34 | 49.7 | 16.64 | 32 | 10.42 |
Diarrhœa | 143 | 159 | 124 | 112 | 104 | S6 | 70 | 169 | 107 | 96 | 117.0 | 39.14 | 87 | 28.32 |
Total in Bethnal Green | 441 | 625 | 567 | 385 | 572 | 525 | 474 | 553 | 662 | 573 | 537.7 | 179.90 | 477 | 155.26 |
Total in London | 11549 | 11352 | 13518 | 12696 | 12380 | 14857 | 12256 | 13577 | 13811 | 13553 | 129649 |