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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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in no instance did the patient so returned contract
small-pox. Seven deaths were actually registered, but
a man died (from variola hæmorrhagica) and was buried
before the true nature of his disease was recognised.
The cause of his death was incorrectly certified to be
purpura hæmorrhagica. The case death rate on the
notifications was 6.3. The black line on the chart
overleaf indicates that the disease prevailed in Bethnal
Green from March to the last week in July, after which
no fresh case was reported during the year.
The following table shews the condition of the
sufferers as to vaccination:—
TABLE N. SMALL-POX.
| No. of Small Pox Cases Notified. | Under 13 Years. | 13 to 25 Years. | 25 Years and upwards. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaccinated. | Unvaccinated. | No Inf. | Vaccinated. | Unvaccinated | No Inf. | Vaccinated. | Unvaccinated. | No Inf. | ||
| 127 | 12 | 28 | 2 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 51 | 3 | 1 | |
| Deaths | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 6 | — | — | |
Small-pox first broke out in some blocks of model
dwellings in Corfield Street. On Friday, March 4th, I
received a note from Dr. A** (a medical practitioner
in the Bethnal Green Road) requesting me to see a
Mrs. Hart, at 395, Corfield Street, who had a suspicious