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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 1904
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1904
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TABLE K.
| 1904. | 1908. | |
|---|---|---|
| Small Pox | 8 | — |
| Measles | 89 | 85 |
| Scarlet Fever | 18 | 13 |
| Diphtheria | 48 | 26 |
| Whooping Cough | 44 | 41 |
| Typhus Fever | — | — |
| Enteric Fever | 6 | 12 |
| Simple Fever | 1 | — |
| Diarrhœa | 147 | 112 |
| Cholera | — | — |
| 361 | 289 |
From an inspection of this table it will be noticed
that the increased mortality is general, and that the
only one of the seven diseases which shews a diminished
mortality is enteric fever. The total deaths included
in table D, form exactly fourteen and a half per cent.
of the total mortality from all causes.
The death rate from these seven Zymotic diseases is
2.7 against 2.2 in 1903, whilst the corresponding
Metropolitan rates are 2.2 and 2.1.
Table F shews the percentage of deaths from each
disease as compared with the total number of Zymotic
deaths.