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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 1894

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1894

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Table: K2 11 (B). Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1894, in the Sanitary District of Bethnal Green; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

K2 11 (B). Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1894, in the Sanitary District of Bethnal Green; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics. Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all Ages.Registered Births.Ages under 5 or over 5New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such cases removed from their homes in the several Localities for treatment in Isolation Hospitals.
Census 1891.Estimat'd to Middle of 1894.Small Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria & Membranous Croup.FEVERS.Cholera.Erysipelas.Small Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria & Membranous Croup.FEVERS.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Puerperal.Enteric or Typhoid.
North, Sub-District51,52047,5851,862Under 537176...2......713025...
5 upwards19101110...631...9916402738
South, Sub-District33,49132,9751,240Under 595264...4......4825271
5 upwards3482911363...5229403026
East, Sub-District44,12342,4401,534Under 558185...3...1432522...
5 upwards13117130...423...621350328
Workhouse.........Under 5...32..................31...
5 upwards...5...............16...5......
Mildmay Hospital.........Under 5....................................
5 upwards...1.....................1......
Victoria Park Hospital.........Under 5....................................
5 upwards....................................
Children's Home.........Under 5....................................
5 upwards....................................
Bethnal House Asylum.........Under 5....................................
5 upwards...1..............................
Totals129,134123,0004,636Under 517207227...9...1151283751
75 upwards663073311141229...581368972

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Isolation Hospitals: Homerton, St. Anne's, Tottenham, and Hospital Ships.