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Bethnal Green 1899
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1899
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THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The total number of deaths from this class of disease is 402; of
these 344 were those of young children aged less than five years.
In Table D the number of deaths from each of these diseases is
shewn and compared with those of the preceding year.
TABLE D.
| 1899 | 1898 | |
|---|---|---|
| Small Pox | 0 | 0 |
| Measles | 90 | 151 |
| Scarlet Fever | 9 | 11 |
| Diphtheria | 64 | 64 |
| Whooping Cough | 44 | 110 |
| Typhus Fever | 0 | 0 |
| Enteric Fever | 38 | 17 |
| Diarrhœa | 156 | 143 |
| Cholera | 1 | 0 |
| 402 | 496 |
Thirteen and a half per cent. of the total deaths from all causes
were referred to the diseases included in Table D against seventeen
per cent. in 1898. The actual decrease in number is 94. The
402 Zymotic deaths were 77 below the decennial average for the
ten years 1889 to 1898. Table V. in the appendix shews this
figure to be 479.
An inspection of Table D will shew that the decrease in the
number of deaths was chiefly amongst those from Measles and
Whooping Cough; on the other hand, the deaths from Enteric
Fever and Diarrhoea were in excess.