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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 1908
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1908 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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SYNOPSIS.—Continued.
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Notification of infectious diseases 37
Do. Certificates 87
Table "O." Details of notifications 39
Scarlet Fever 40
Diphtheria 40
Enteric Fever 41
Typhus and Small Pox 45
Whooping Cough 45
Diarrhœal diseases 45
Measles 46
Do. Schools closed 46
Chicken Pox 47
Tuberculosis 47
Diseases of Parturition 57
Erysipelas and Puerperal Fever 58
Cancer 58
Glanders 59
Inquests 59
Suicides 60
Manslaughter 60
Uncertified deaths 60
Bakehouses 60
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1890 to 1903 61
Housing of Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1903 62
Staff and Officers 62
Tables—
I.—Vital Statistics of Whole District 63
II.—Vital Statistics of Separate Localities in
1908 and previous years 64
III.—Cases of Infectious Disease notified 65
IV.—Causes of, and Ages at Death 66
V, V(a), V(b).—lnfantile Mortality 67,68,69
VI.—Number of deaths from the seven principal
Zymotic Diseases in the ten years 1898
to 1907 and in the year 1908 70