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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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Synopsis
of
MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1897.
Vital Statistics page
Census 5
Population 6
Births 7
Deaths 7
Death-Rate 8
Birth Rate 9
Marriages 9
Deaths of Infants 10
Deaths of Young Children 10
Old Persons' Death Rate 10
Special Causes of Death 10
Table of Deaths during the year 1896, in three Sub-Districts
of Bethnal Green, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and
Localities 11
Analysis of the Vital and Mortal Statistics of the Sanitary
Districts of the Metropolis, after Distribution of Deaths
occurring in public Institutions, during the year 1890 15
The Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases 17
Notification of Infectious Diseases 18
Table G. Infectious Cases, 1896 19
Small Pox 20
Scarlet Fever 20
Enteric Fever 21
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) 21
Report of Fever and Diphtheria Cases admitted into Fever
Hospitals during the year 1896 23
Whooping Cough 24
Measles 24
Diarrhoea 24
Tubercular Diseases 24
Respiratory Diseases 25