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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 1896

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1896

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17
THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The total number of deaths referred to this class of disease was
547, of these 483 being young children under five years of age.
In table "D" the deaths from each of these diseases are shewn
and compared with those of the preceding year. From this it will
be seen that an increase has occurred chiefly under the heads of
Measles and Whooping Cough, whilst Diphtheria and Diarrhœa
show a considerable decrease.

Table: TABLE D.

TABLE D.

1896.1895.
Small Pox...4
Measles149110
Scarlet Fever4030
Diphtheria77102
Whooping Cough15133
Typhus Fever......
Enteric Fever2117
Simple Fever......
Diarrhœa108146
Cholera1...
Total547442

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Eighteen per cent. of the total deaths from all causes were
referred to the diseases included in table "D" against sixteen per
cent. in 1895. The actual increase in number was 105, the decennial
average for the ten years 1886 to 1895 being 478 (see table " V ").
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