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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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The death rate from these seven Zymotic diseases is 3.1 against
3.8 in 1898, whilst the corresponding rates for London are 2.7 in
1898 and 2.4 in 1899.
Table F shews the percentage of deaths from each disease as
compared with the total number of Zymotic deaths.
TABLE F.
| Measles | 22.3 per cent., or 1 in 4.4 deaths. |
| Scarlatina | 2.2 „ „ 44.6 „ |
| Diphtheria | 15.9 „ „ 6.2. „ |
| Whooping Cough | 10.9 „ „ 9.1 „ |
| Enteric Fever | 9.4 „ „ 10.5 „ |
| Diarrhœa | 39.0 „ „ 2.5 „ |
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Fourteen hundred and eight notification certificates have been
received during the year, and copies have been duly forwarded to
the Metropolitan Asylums Board; 105 of these certificates were
duplicate notifications; these latter form about seven and a half per
cent. of the whole. Table M.11 (B) indicates the sub-district in
which the residence of the sick person was situated, and Table G
gives particulars of the numbers of cases month by month, together
with the hospital admissions and discharges.
In four instances there was unnecessary delay in forwarding the
certificates, and the fees for the same were disallowed by the
Sanitary Committee. In seven instances the certificates were
returned to the medical practitioners, as the addresses of the sick
persons were either incorrectly stated or were outside the parish.
One case was notified as Diphtheria, and two days subsequently as
Scarlet Fever by the same practitioner. The Sanitary Committee
disallowed the second certificate. One medical gentleman wrote
withdrawing his certificate.