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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 1893

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1893

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THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The deaths referred to the orders Miasmatic (exclusive of Influenza
and Diarrhoea), were 510, making a decrease of sixteen. The
decennial average of Zymotic deaths for the ten years of 1883 to
1892 was 490 (See Table V.) The death rate from Zymotic diseases
was 4.14. This is identical with that of 1892. The corresponding
rates for London were 2.8 in 1892 and 3.0 in 1893.

Table: TABLE D.

TABLE D.

1893.1892.
Small Pox75
Measles82131
Scarlet Fever7153
Diphtheria137119
Whooping Cough59122
Typhus Fever......
Enteric Fever2622
Simple Fever......
Diarrhoea12874
Cholera......
Total510526

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Of the total deaths from all causes fifteeen and a half per cent,
were referred to the group of diseases in the above table.
The diseases showing considerable increase over last year were
Diphtheria and Diarrhœa; on the other hand those from Whooping
Cough and Measles, had greatly diminished.