Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1895
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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT. TABLE V.
DISEASE. | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | Annual Average of ten years. 1885—1894. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in ten years, 1885-1894. | 1895 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1895. |
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Small Pox | 22 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 41 | 1.37 | 4 | 1.40 | |
Measles | 163 | 108 | 73 | 124 | 132 | 106 | 100 | 131 | 82 | 135 | 115.4 | 38.65 | 110 | 39.73 |
Scarlet Fever | 62 | 35 | 61 | 120 | 40 | 34 | 29 | 53 | 71 | 27 | 53.2 | 17.83 | 30 | 10.83 |
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 19 | 21 | 26 | 52 | 102 | 133 | 69 | 119 | 137 | 133 | 81.1 | 27.18 | 102 | 36.84 |
Whooping Cough | 92 | 148 | 101 | 167 | 62 | 113 | 128 | 122 | 59 | 70 | 106.2 | 35.60 | 33 | 11.92 |
Fever | 21 | 29 | 31 | 21 | 21 | 29 | 19 | 22 | 26 | 26 | 24.5 | 8.21 | 17 | 6.14 |
Diarrhœa | 84 | 166 | 123 | 67 | 95 | 94 | 77 | 74 | 128 | 54 | 96.2 | 32.25 | 146 | 52.37 |
Total in Bethnal Green | 463 | 507 | 416 | 552 | 452 | 509 | 422 | 526 | 510 | 450 | 480.7 | 161 | 442 | 159 |