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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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MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1893.
Vital Statistics page
Population 5
Births 6
Death-Rate 7
Births and Birth Rate 13
Marriages 13
Deaths of Infants 13
Deaths of Young Children 17
Old Persons' Death Rate 17
Special Causes of Death—
Summary of Table III 18
Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases 18
The Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases 19
Small Pox 20
Scarlet Fever 21
Fevers 22
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) 22
Whooping Cough 23
Measles 24
Notification of Infectious Diseases 24
Certificates of Cases of Infectious Disease 25
Report of Cases admitted into Small Pox Hospitals 26
Report of Cases admitted in Fever Hospitals 27
Deaths from Respiratory Diseases 30
Queen Adelaide's Dispensary 31
Cases treated in Mildmay Hospital 32
City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest 32
Bethnall House Lunatic Asylum 32
Bethnal Green Infirmary 33
Factories and Workshops 33