Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1899
This page requires JavaScript
M.II (B.) Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1899, in the Sanitary District of Bethnal Green; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics, Public Institutions being shown as separate localities. | Population at all Ages. | Registered Births. | Ages under 5or over 5. | New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health. | Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several localities for treatment in Isolation Hospital. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Last Census. | Estimated tomiddle of 1899. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | fevers. | Erysipelas. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | fevers. | ||||||
Enteric orTyphoid. | Continued. | Puerperal. | Enteric orTyphoid. | Continued. | ||||||||||
North, Sub-District | 51,520 | 49,339 | 1930 | Under 5 5 upwards | 56 | 54 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 37 | 35 | .. | .. |
98 | 69 | 69 | 10 | 135 | 65 | 46 | 46 | |||||||
South, Sub-District | 33,489 | 34,194 | 1361 | Under 5 5 upwards | 48 | 51 | 4 | .. | .. | 4 | 31 | 35 | 2 | .. |
66 | 54 | 62 | 5 | 74 | 47 | 30 | 48 | |||||||
East, Sub-District | 44,123 | 45,667 | 1462 | Under 5 5 upwards | 59 | 53 | 1 | .. | .. | 7 | 34 | 32 | 1 | .. |
87 | 54 | 62 | .. | 3 | 87 | 63 | 30 | 52 | .. | |||||
Workhouse | .. | .. | .. | Under 5 5 upwards | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
.. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 17 | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
Children's Home, Bonner Road | .. | .. | .. | Under 5 5 upwards | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | |||||
Totals | .. | .. | .. | Under 5 5 upwards | 163 | 158 | 6 | .. | .. | 13 | 102 | 102 | 3 | .. |
254 | 177 | 193 | .. | 18 | 314 | 178 | 106 | 146 | .. | |||||
Grand Totals | 129,132 | 129,200 | 4753 | 417 | 335 | 199 | .. | 18 | 327 | 280 | 208 | 149 | .. |