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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TABLE V.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the ten years 1879,
1888, and in the year 1889.
DISEASE. | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 188 4 | 18S5 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | Annual Average of 10 year*, 1879, 1888. | Proportions of Deaths to 1000 Deaths In 10 years 1879 1888 (all diseases). | 1889 | Proportions of of Deaths to 100O Deaths in 1889 (all diseases). |
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Small Pox | 7 | 51 | 118 | 7 | 1 | 99 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 30.7 | 10.27 | 0 | 0.00 |
Measles | 106 | 34 | 185 | 58 | 128 | 37 | 163 | 108 | 73 | 124 | 101.6 | 33.99 | 132 | 48.74 |
Scarlet Fever | 76 | 114 | 82 | 138 | 174 | 100 | 62 | 35 | 61 | 120 | 96.2 | 32.18 | 40 | 14.77 |
Diphtheria | 14 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 19 | 21 | 26 | 52 | 19 1 | 6.39 | 102 | 37.68 |
Whooping Cough | 147 | 140 | 102 | 229 | 42 | 142 | 92 | 148 | 101 | 167 | 131.0 | 43.83 | 62 | 22.90 |
Fever | 56 | 37 | 59 | 34 | 32 | 49 | 21 | 29 | 31 | 21 | 36.9 | 12.34 | 21 | 7.75 |
Diarrhoea | 70 | 169 | 107 | 96 | 87 | 137 | 84 | 166 | 123 | 67 | 110.6 | 37.00 | 95 | 35.08 |
Total in Bethnal Green | 476 | 557 | 662 | 573 | 477 | 578 | 463 | 507 | 416 | 552 | 526.1 | 176.00 | 452 | 166.92 |
Total in London | 12,256 | 13,681 | 13,811 | 13,558 | 10,801 | 13,629 | 13,074 | 11,121 | 12,684 | 10,803 | 12,704 | 10,803 | 124.7 |