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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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Notes...The localities Adopted for this table are the same as those in Tables 11. and IV.
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Table: TABLE 111. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1908.

TABLE 111. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1908.

Notifiable Diseases,Cases Notified in Whole District.Total cases notified in each Locality.No of crises removed to Hospital from each Locality.
At all Ages.All Ages.. Years.1 North East.2 South West.1 North East.2 South West.3 Total crises removed to Hospital.
Under 1,1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 2525 to 6565 and Upwards.
Small Pox....................................
Cholera....................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous croup)2772013496198...123154115145260
Erysipelas2471315203314719118129.........
Scarlet fever1,00593235856721...504501484480964
Typhus fever....................................
Enteric fever83...3361529...4934492978
Relapsing fever....................................
Continued fever....................................
Puerperal fever6.........15...33314
Plague....................................
Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis211............2...22
Totals1,62043476737135210197998216536551308