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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Bethnal Green 1884

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

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Bethnal Green Sanitary District.

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CAUSE OF DEATH.AGES.Total under 5 years.Total.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 and upwards
I.—Zymotic Diseases (continued).
Diphtheria193..1............1014
Simple Continued Fever..1....1............12
Enteric, or Typhoid Fever..214945522....243
Other Miasmatic Diseases1..1..............12
2. Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera3..........11......35
Diarrhœa, Dysentery10126..1....112....127132
3. Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever..........................
Ague..........................
4. Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and vaccination..........................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glander)..........................
5. Venereal Diseases.
Syphillis192......21........2124
Gonorrhoea. Stricture..........................
6. Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas41..2....1..11..510
Pyæmia, Septicœmia....1..1......1......3
Puerperal Fever......411............6
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases2....................22
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasites..........................
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation61..11......11..711
Scurvy..........................
Chronic Alcoholism..........23..........5
Delirium Tremens........1..11........3

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NOTES.
1.—Includes: Small Pox, 99; Measles, 37; Scarlet Fever, 100; Diphtheria, 14;
Whooping Cough, 142 ; Fever, 49; and Diarrhoea, 137.
2.—Includes: Pleurisy, 8; Bronchitis, 423; Pneumonia, 140; Asthma, 13; Lung
Disease, 4; Laryngitis, 7.
3.—Includes: Phthisis, 309; Scrofula, 27; Rickets, 1; and Tabes, 87.
4.—Includes: Marasmus, Atrophy, and Debility, 90; Want of Breast Milk, 11; Premature
Birth, 95.
5.—Includes: Hydrocephalus, 20; Infantile Meningitis, 21: Convulsions, 84: Teething,
15; Laryngismus Stridulus, 3; and other diseases of Nervous System, 4.