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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 1913
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1913 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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TABLE M.
| TABLE M. | |
| Small Pox | caused 0 deaths, 0 per cent. |
| Measles | „ 59 „ 23.4 „ or 1 in 4.3 deaths. |
| Scarlatina | „ 3 „ 1.2 „ „ 84.0 ,, |
| Diphtheria | „ 11 „ 4.4 „ „ 22.9 „ |
| Whooping Cough | „ 30 „ 11.9 „ „ 8.4 „ |
| Typhus Fever | „ 0 „ 0 „ |
| Enteric Fever | „ 4 „ 16 „ „ 63.0 „ |
| Diarrhoea | „ 145 „ 57.4 „ „ 17 „ |
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, Sec. 55.
A gross total of 1,031 notification certificates has been
received from medical practitioners, but as 73 of these were
duplicates (7%), the actual number of cases of infectious
disease notified and dealt with was 958, a rate of 7.5 per
thousand on the estimated population of the Borough.
613 of the sufferers were removed to hospitals under the
control of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and 33 to
other hospitals. 27 cases were treated in private houses
under such conditions of isolation as were fairly satisfactory.
In seventeen instances (a proportion of nearly 2 per
cent.) information was received from one or other of the
Medical Superintendents of the Board's hospitals that the
diagnosis, as given in the notification certificate, was incorrect.
Table N sets out full particulars of all the notifications.