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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 1916

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1916

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Table: TABLE K.

TABLE K.

Disease.Deaths at Home.Deaths in Hospital.Total
Scarlet Fever...55
Diphtheria22426
Enteric Fever2...2
Erysipelas167
Puerperal Fever...66
Measles10919
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis3710
Polio-Myelitis1...1
Whooping Cough113344

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THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
(Decennial average of deaths from Zymotic disease, 275.)
The total number of deaths from the diseases usually
included under this heading was 169, a decrease of 153
on the previous year. In the following table the comparative
mortalities for 1915 and 1916 are given : —

Table: TABLE L.

TABLE L.

Disease.1915.1916.
Measles10519
Scarlet Fever115
Diphtheria3926
Whooping Cough3644
Enteric Fever32
Diarrhœa12873
Totals322169