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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 1900
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of Bethnal Green during the year 1900
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Table F shews the percentage of deaths from each disease ascompared
with the total number of zymotic deaths.
TABLE F.
| Measles | caused 63 deaths. | 18.0 per cent., | or 1 in 5.5 deaths. | ||
| Scarlatina | „ 12 „ | 3.4 „ | „ 29.0 „ | ||
| Diphtheria | „ 60 ,, | 17.2 „ | „ 5.8 „ | ||
| Whooping Cough | „ 93 „ | 26.6 „ | „ 3.7 „ | ||
| Enteric Fever | „ 18„ | 5.1 „ | „ 19.4 „ | ||
| Diarrhœa | „ 103 „ | 29.5 „ | „ 3.3 „ | ||
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
During the year 1,263 notification certificates have been received,
and copies have been duly forwarded to the Metropolitan Asylums
Board; 98 of these certificates were duplicate notifications. These
latter form about seven-and-a-half per cent. of the whole. Table
III. in the appendix indicates the sub-district in which the residence
of the sick person was situated. It also shews the numbers
removed from each sub-district.
In four instances there was unnecessary delay in forwarding the
certificate, and the fees for the same were disallowed by the Sanitary
Committee. In three instances the certificates were returned to the
medical practitioners, as the address of the sick person was either
incorrectly stated or was outside the district. One medical practitioner
withdrew his certificate.
SMALL POX.
(No deaths. Decemial average, 2.)
Four cases of small pox were reported during the year. A. H.,
an unvaccinated female aged one year and six months, was removed