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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 following Table shows the percentage of deaths from each
disease as compared with the total number of Zymotic Deaths.
TABLE F.
| Small Pox | 1.37 per cent., or 1 in 72.86 deaths. |
| Measles | 16.08 „ „ 6.22 „ |
| Scarlatina | 13.92 „ „ 7.18 „ |
| Diphtheria | 26.86 „ „ 3.72 „ |
| Whooping Cough | 11.57 „ „ 8.64 „ |
| Typhus Fever | 0.00 „ „ 0.0 „ |
| Enteric Fever | 5.09 „ „ 19.61 „ |
| Simple Fever | 0.0 „ „ 0.0 „ |
| Diarrhœa | 25.10 „ „ 3.98 „ |
SMALL POX.
(Decennial average 13).
The total number of Small Pox cases reported during the year
was 79. Of these 67 were removed to Hospital, though only 54 were
admitted. Thirteen were sent home again as, in the opinion of the
Hospital Medical Officers, the sick persons were not suffering from
Small Pox; thirty-seven of the cases came from the North district;
fifteen from the South, and twenty-seven from the East.
There were seven deaths, all (except one) amongst those removed
to Hospital, two had been, vaccinated and five were unvaccinated
These numbers are too few to base statistics upon; but so far as
they go they strongly support the value of vaccination.
From the whole of London 2,376 persons suffering from Small
Pox were admitted to the Asylums Board Hospitals in 1893, of
these 180 died, a mortality of 75.7 per thousand cases. Of 500
who had never been vaccinated 94 died, a mortality of 188.0 per
thousand. Of 1,624 who showed vaccination marks of varying
degrees of goodness, only 42 died, a mortality of 25.8 per thousand.