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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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Population (estimated to middle of 1908,) 66,236. Deaths from all causes at all ages 1,114.
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Table: TABLE V(b). District—South West Bethnal Green. Infantile Mortality during the Year, 1908. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V(b). District—South West Bethnal Green. Infantile Mortality during the Year, 1908. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 week.1-2 Weeks2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under one month.1-2 Months.2-3 Months3-4 Months.4-5 Months.5-6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under one Year.
All causes Certified60814159733212018172361411u14288
Uncertified................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases Small-pox...................................................
Chicken pox..............................................
Measles..................••......22...111310
Scarlet Fever...........................1...............1
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)........................1.........1...1...3
Whooping Cough.........11.........313......21213
ii. Diarrhceal Diseases Diarrhoea, all forms.........1113423714...2...28
Enteritis, Mucoontcritis, Gastroenteritis1...1...2352922...111129
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...............11...1.....................3
iii. Wasting Diseases Premature Birth302323721......1..................41
Congenital Defects123211821......1............1...21
Injury at Birth5.........5.................................5
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus7212124...32...22111230
iv. Tuberculous Diseases Tuberculous Meningitis.........11......111...1...23...10
Tuberculous Peritonitis, Tabes Mesenterica........................2.....................2
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............1......121...............5
V. Other Causes.............................................4
Syphilis...............4..................1.........4
Rickets.................................1.........1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...............1............1...............1
Convulsions...............41...........................
Bronchitis......1...1424...1.........11...14
Laryngitis.............................................
Pueumonia...1...1251132114...2527
Suffocation, overlying1...225311...11......2......14
Other Causes4...4412411......2111...124
608141597332120181723614111414288

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Births in the year, 2,238. Deaths in the year of infants, 288.
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Pueumonia
Convulsions
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Measles
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