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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 1915
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1915 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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The death rate from these Zymotic Diseases is 2.67
for 1915, against 2.58 for the previous year, the corresponding
rates for the whole of London being 1.5
and 2.21. The deaths from Zymotic Diseases form 15.4
per cent, of the total mortality from all causes.
Table M shows the percentage of deaths from each of these diseases, calculated upon the total number of Zymotic deaths:— TABLE M.
| Measles | caused 105 deaths | 32'6 per cent., | or 1 in 3 0 deaths. |
| Scarlatina | „ 11 „ | 3.4 „ | „ 29.2 „ |
| Diphtheria | „ 30 „ | 12.1 „ | „ 8.2 „ |
| Whooping Cough | „ 36 „ | 11.1 „ | „ 8.9 „ |
| Enteric Fever | „ 3 „ | 0.9 „ | „ 107.0 „ |
| Diarrhœa | „ 128 „ | 39.7 „ | „ 2.4 „ |
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
A gross total of 1,964 notification certificates have
been received from medical practitioners, but as 69 of
these were duplicates (3.5 per cent.), the actual number
of cases of infectious disease dealt with was 1,895, a
rate of 15.7 per thousand on the estimated population
of the Borough. Of the sufferers, 1,297 were removed
to hospitals under the control of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, and 32 to other hospitals. In 25 instances (a
proportion of about 1.3 per cent.) information was received
from one or other of the Hospital Medical
Superintendents that the diagnosis as stated on the
notification certificate was incorrect. Table N sets out
full particulars of all the notifications:—