Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE V.
DISEASE. | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1876, 1885. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in to years 1876,1885. | 1886 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1886. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 31 | 88 | 55 | 7 | 51 | 118 | 7 | 1 | 99 | 22 | 47.9 | 16.22 | 0 | 00.0 |
Measles | 56 | 142 | 59 | 106 | 34 | 185 | 58 | 128 | 37 | 163 | 96.8 | 32.78 | 108 | 35.53 |
Scarlet Fever | 80 | 93 | 68 | 76 | 114 | 82 | 138 | 174 | 100 | 62 | 98.7 | 33.43 | 35 | 11.53 |
Diphtheria | 3 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 19 | 11.1 | 3.75 | 21 | 6.90 |
Whooping Cough | 61 | 89 | 192 | 147 | 140 | 102 | 229 | 42 | 142 | 92 | 123.6 | 41.86 | 148 | 48.68 |
Fever | 42 | 48 | 51 | 56 | 37 | 59 | 34 | 32 | 49 | 21 | 42.9 | 14.53 | 29 | 9.54 |
Diarrhœa | 112 | 104 | 86 | 70 | 169 | 107 | 96 | 87 | 137 | 84 | 105.2 | 35.63 | 166 | 54.61 |
Total in Bethnal Green | 385 | 572 | 525 | 474 | 553 | 662 | 573 | 477 | 578 | 463 | 526.2 | 178,20 | 507 | 166.79 |
Total in London | 12,565 | 12,392 | 14,734 | 12,256 | 13,681 | 13,811 | 13,553 | 10,801 | 13,629 | 13,074 | 13,040 | 160.3 | 11,121 | 170.8 |