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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 1895
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1895
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THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The total number of deaths from this group of diseases was 442,
a figure which represents nearly sixteen per cent. of the total deaths
from all causes. Of these deaths 384 were amongst young children
under five years of age.
The total Zymotic deaths exceeded those of the previous year by
four, the decennial average for the ten years 1885 to 1894 was 480
(see table V.) The death rate from these seven Zymotic diseases
was 3.4 against 3 6 in 1894. The corresponding rates for London
were 2.6 in each of the years 1894 and 1895.
TABLE D.
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