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Bethnal Green 1886
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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The corresponding rates for London were 2.7. in 1885, and 2.6
in 1886.
In the following Table is shewn the per-centage of each as
compared with the total number of Zymotic deaths.
TABLE F.
| Small Pox | 0.0 per cent., or 1 in 0.0deaths. |
| Measles | 21.30 „ „ 4.69 „ |
| Scarlatina | 6.90 „ „ 14.49 „ |
| Diphtheria | 4.14 „ „ 24.14 „ |
| Whooping Cough | 29.19 „ „ 3.42 „ |
| Typhus Fever | 0.19 „ „ 507.00 „ |
| Enteric Fever | 4.93 „ „ 20.28 „ |
| Simple Fever | 0.59 „ „ 169.0 „ |
| Diarrhoea | 32.74 „ „3.05 „ |
SMALL POX.
(Decennial average, 47.9).
Small Pox seems to have temporarily almost disappeared from the
district; for there has been no death from this disease during the
year. Seven cases of Small Pox, however, were reported to us
including one of "supposed" Small Pox which had been treated
at home and was convalescent when I saw it. The other six cases
were all removed to the Asylums' Board Hospitals upon the Order
of the District Medical Officers. Upon referring to the Report of
the Asylums' Board Hospitals (page 17), it will be noticed that
only two cases of Small Pox are returned by the authorities as
having been removed from this district; the other cases have
proved to be, not Small Pox but some other disease, probably
Chicken Pox, which is an infectious disease and quite suitable for
treatment in hospital. It is, in my opinion, very much better to
remove many doubtful cases rather than to permit a single true