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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Cases of Infectious Disease, 1889, A.D.
English Cholera. | Relapsing Fever. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Enteric Fever. | Simple Fever. | Erysipelas. | Admitted. | Discharged. | Died. | Remaiming. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
January | .. | .. | .. | 21 | .. | .. | 10 | .. | .. | Nil. | 22 | 13 | 6 | 48 |
February | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 3 | .. | 6 | .. | .. | 9 | 13 | 3 | 41 | |
March | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 6 | 10 | .. | 36 | |
April | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 6 | 10 | 1 | 30 | |
May | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 16 | 1 | 17 | |
June | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 9 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 11 | 8 | 1 | 19 | |
July | .. | .. | .. | 9 | 23 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 16 | 6 | 6 | 23 | |
August | .. | .. | .. | 17 | 24 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 22 | 7 | 7 | 31 | |
September | .. | .. | .. | 33 | 24 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 26 | 11 | 6 | 19 | |
October | 1 | .. | .. | 24 | 23 | .. | 7 | .. | .. | 22 | 13 | 6 | 42 | |
November | .. | 1 | .. | 43 | 26 | 9 | 20 | 3 | 24 | 11 | 19 | 2 | 32 | |
December | .. | .. | .. | 20 | 14 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 29 | |
Totals | 1 | 1 | 0 | 197 | 162 | 12 | 65 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 160 | 136 | 40 | 29 |
INQUESTS.
The Coroner bold 208 inquests, 7.6 per cent. of the total mortality,
or one in every 12.43 deaths. The violent deaths numbered 81,
three and a quarter per cent. of the total deaths. Only two deaths
wero uncertified.
RESPIRATORY DISEASES.
The deaths from this group of diseases, exclusive of Phthisis,
were 625, nearly one-fourth of the total mortality from all causes,
and corresponded to a rate of 4.77 per thousand population. The
mortality from pulmonary diseases has been decreasing for the last
three years.