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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 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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MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1899
Vital Statistics— page
Population 5
Deaths 6
Death Rate 7
Birth Rate 8
Marriages 9
Deaths of Infants 9
Deaths of Young Children 10
Elderly Persons' Death Rate 10
Special Causes of Death 10
Table of Deaths during the year 1899, in the Bethnal Green
District, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities 11
The Death Rates of London Sanitary Areas during 1899 12
Analysis of the Vital and Mortal Statistics of the Sanitary Districts
of the Metropolis, after Distribution of Deaths occurring in public
Institutions, during the year 1899 15
Death Rates in Bethnal Green during the Quarters ending March,
June, September, and December, 1899, after Distribution of
Deaths in Public Institutions 17
The Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases 18
Notification of Infectious Diseases 19
Table G. Infectious Cases, 1899 20
Small Pox 21
Scarlet Fever 21
Enteric Fever 22
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) 23
Asylums Board Hospitals 23
Report of Fever and Diphtheria Cases admitted into Fever
Hospitals during the year 1899 24
Puerperal Fever 25
Whooping Cough 25
Measles 25
Diarrhœal Diseases 25