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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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BETHNAL GREEN.—TABLE III.—Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1902.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Cases Notified in Whole District. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages-Years. | 1 North. | 2 South. | 3 East. | 1 North. | 2 South. | 3 East. | Total. | ||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | |||||||||
| Small pox | 520 | 11 | 41 | 119 | 168 | 176 | 5 | *125 | *172 | *223 | *125 | *172 | *223 | – |
| Diphtheria | 299 | 10 | 147 | 111 | 18 | 13 | – | 136 | 71 | 92 | 104 | 59 | 67 | 230 |
| Membranous croup | 11 | 1 | 8 | 2 | – | 13 | – | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Erysipelas | 253 | 18 | 9 | 19 | 22 | 168 | 17 | 106 | 64 | 83 | 25 | 14 | 20 | – |
| Scarlet fever | 511 | 9 | 225 | 231 | 33 | 13 | – | 212 | 130 | 169 | 186 | 105 | 144 | 435 |
| Enteric fever | 511 | 9 | 5 | 40 | 49 | 37 | – | 50 | 39 | 42 | 43 | 36 | 37 | – |
| Continued fever | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – |
| Puerperal fever | 10 | – | – | – | 4 | 6 | – | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | – | 1 | – |
| Chicken pox | 860 | 104 | 445 | 288 | 17 | 6 | – | 362 | 239 | 259 | – | – | – | – |
| Totals | 2596 | 153 | 880 | 811 | 311 | 419 | 22 | 1003 | 719 | 874 | 487 | 388 | 494 | 670 |
* Thirty-five of these cases were afterwards returned as not small pox.
Notes.—The localities adopted for this table are the same as those in Tables II. and IV