Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1905
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TABLE VI. Shewing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Disease, inclusive of Hospital Deaths in the 10 years 1895 to 1904, and in the year 1905.
DISEASE. | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | I898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1895-1904. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years. 1895-1904. | 1905 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1905. |
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Small-pox | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 64 | — | 8 | 8 | 2.9 | 0 | 0.0 |
Measles | 110 | 149 | 109 | 151 | 90 | 63 | 84 | 59 | 85 | 89 | 99 | 36.2 | 48 | 19.8 |
Scarlet Fever | 30 | 40 | 24 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 44 | '9 | 13 | 18 | 22 | 8.0 | 27 | 11.2 |
Diphtheria | 102 | 77 | 87 | 64 | 64 | 60 | 63 | 33 | 26 | 48 | 62 | 22.7 | 31 | 12.8 |
Whooping Cough | 33 | 151 | 53 | 110 | 44 | 93 | 38 | 89 | 41 | 44 | 70 | 25.6 | 50 | 207 |
Fever | 17 | 21 | 20 | '7 | 38 | 18 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 18 | 6.6 | 9 | 37 |
Diarrhoea | 146 | 109 | 151 | 143 | 157 | 103 | 119 | 60 | 112 | 47 | 125 | 45.8 | 119 | 492 |
Total in Bethnal Green | 442 | 547 | 444 | 496 | 402 | 349 | 370 | 339 | 289 | 361 | 404 | 47.9 | 284 | 1175 |