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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 1886

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

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Table: SPECIAL CAUSES OF DEATH.SUMMARY OF TABLE III.

SPECIAL CAUSES OF DEATH.

SUMMARY OF TABLE III.

No. of Deaths.Per centage on Total Deaths.Mortality Rate on Population.
Order.Classes
I.— Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases540..17.774.157
1. Miasmatic Diseases..34111.222.625
2. Diarrhœal „..1665.461.278
3. Malarial „..00.00.000
4. Zoogenous „..10.030.007
5. Venereal „..120.390.092
6. Septic „..200.650.154
II.— Parasitic Diseases440.130.030
III.— Dietic Diseases25250.820.193
TV. constitutional, Diseases53153117.474.088
V.— Developmental Diseases1841846.051.416
VI.— Local Diseases1499..49.3111.541
1. Diseases of Nervous System..36712.072.825
2. Diseases of Organs of Special Sense..10.030.007
3. Diseases of Circulatory System..1575.161.209
4. Diseases of Respiratory System..78825.926.067
5. Diseases of Digestive System..943.090.723
6. Diseases of Lymphatic System..10.030.007
7. Diseases of Gland-like Organs of Uncertain use....0.000.000
8. Diseases of Urinary System..441.440.338
9. Diseases of Reproductive System......, ,
(a). Diseases of Organs of Generation..30.090.023
(b). Diseases of Parturition..180.590.138
10. Diseases of Bones and Joints..170.550.130
11. Diseases of Integumentary System..90.290.069
VII.— Violence.110..3.610.846
1. Accident or Negligence..973.190.741
2. Homicide..10.030.007
3. Suicide..120.390.092
4. Execution....0.000.000
VIII.— III-Defined and not specified Causes1471474.831.132
Total30403040

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Class I.
SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The total number of deaths referred to in this class of diseases
was 540, of which 436 were cases of young children under five years
of age. Amongst these 209 occurred during the first year of life ;
155 of the deaths were from Diarrheal diseases; 123 were from
Whooping Cough ; and 96 from Measles.