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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: The following is a list of cases in which the fatal termination of the disease was, in the opinion either of the Coroner's Jury or of the Medical attendant, accelerated by intemperate habits:—

The following is a list of cases in which the fatal termination of the disease was, in the opinion either of the Coroner's Jury or of the Medical attendant, accelerated by intemperate habits:—

Sex.Age.Cause of Death.
Female29Serous Apoplexy.
Male66Serous effusion on Brain.
Female73Fall down stairs whilst drunk.
Female49Failure of heart.
Female47Failure of heart.
Female55Syncope.
Female54Syncope.
Female52Syncope.
Male45Serous effusion on Brain.
Male44Pneumonia.
Male48Concussion of Brain from fall down stairs.
Female35Cirrhosis.
Male45Delirium Tremens.
Male62Delirium Tremens.
Male35Delirium Tremens.
Female54Effusion of blood on Brain.
Male46Serous Apoplexy, disease of Liver and Kidney.

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PRIVATION.
Three infants were certified to have died from want of breast
milk, and the following six cases were the subject of Coroner's
inquests :—
Sex. Age. Cause of Death.
Female 78 Valvular disease of heart,
accelerated by want of proper
food.
Female 46 Pneumonia and exposure.
Male 57 Syncope and exposure to cold.
Female 73 Failure of heart's action
celerated by cold.
Male 72 Congestion of lungs
erated by privation.
Male 43 Phthisis accelerated by want.