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Bethnal Green 1883
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1883.
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Population 1
Births and Deaths 7
Annual Death Rate 8
Births and Birth Rate 9
Marriages 9
Deaths of Infants 10
Deaths of Young Children 10
Special Causes of Death—
Summary of Table III. 11
Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases 11
The Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases 12
Small Pox 13
Scarlet Fever 13
Fevers 13
Diphtheria 14
Whooping Cough 15
Measles 15
Diarrhoea 15
Other Zymotic Diseases 16
Dietetic Diseases—
Alcoholism 16
Privation 16
Constitutional Diseases 17
Tubercular Disease 17
Developmental Diseases 17
Diseases of the Nervous System 17
Respiratory Organs 17
Childbirth 19
Wasting Diseases of Infants 19
Inquests 19
Deaths in Public Institutions—
Bethnal Green Infirmary 20
Queen Adelaide's Dispensary 20
City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest 20
Mildmay Mission Hospital 21
Bethnall House Lunatic Asylum 21
Pauper Illness 21