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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 1902
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1902
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1902.
Vital Statistics— page
Estimate of Population 5
Births 6
Deaths 7
Death Rate 8
Mortality Rates in Sub-Districts 8
Birth Rate 9
Marriages 10
Deaths of Infants 11
Deaths of Young Children 11
Elderly Persons Death Rate 11
Weekly Mortality 11
Special Causes of Death 11
The Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases 13
Notification of Infectious Diseases 14
Small Pox 17
Chicken Pox 32
Scarlet Fever 32
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) 33
Enteric Fever 34
Diseases of Parturition 34
Whooping Cough 35
Measles 35
Diarrhœal Diseases 35
Tubercular Disease 35
Phthisis 36
Respiratory Diseases 39
Malignant Disease 39
Uncommon Causes of Death 39
Suicides 39
Murder 40
Uncertified Deaths 40