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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

Mile End 1887

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]

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Table: The following Table shews the number of births registered in each vear for the last ten vears.

The following Table shews the number of births registered in each vear for the last ten vears.

Year.No. of Births.Year.No. of Births.
1878-7942981883-44147
1879-8042421884-54065
1880-8141171885-640 10
1881-8241411886-74028
1882-8342481887-84034

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This increase in the death-rate of .7 more than that for the whole of
London, and 1.6 more than the death-rate for Mile End for the year
1886-87, is due to a great extent to the heavy mortality from Infantine
disease and Whooping Cough. 204 deaths took place from this disease
as against 49 the previous year, whilst 638 children died under one year
of age as against 574 the year previous.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
It will readily be understood that it is with the deaths from these
diseases that we are particularly interested, and strive to do all we can
to prevent their spread and so lessen the mortality arising therefrom.
The following Table shows the deaths from these diseases in the
four quarters of the year.
Quarter
ending
June, 1887.
Quarter
ending
Oct., 1887,
Quarter
ending
Dec., 1887.
'
Quarter
ending
Mar., 1888.
Total.
Small Pox
-
-
-
1
-
Measles
32
7
5
11
55
Scarlet Fever
10
10
16
22
58
Diphtheria
9
6
5
2
22
Whooping Cough
22
37
73
72
204
Typhus Fever
—
-
—
-
-
Typhoid Fever
3
10
7
10
30
Diarrhœa
8
136
—
1
6
151
Grand Total
...
...
• • •
...
521