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
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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE V.
DISEASE. | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | AnnualAverage of ten years, 1889-1898. | Proportion of Deathsto 1000Deaths in ten years, 1889-1898. | 1899 | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1899. |
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Small Pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 |
Measles | 132 | 106 | 100 | 131 | 82 | 135 | 110 | 149 | 109 | 151 | 120.5 | 41.0 | 90 | 30.6 |
Scarlet Fever | 40 | 34 | 29 | 53 | 71 | 27 | 30 | 40 | 24 | 11 | 35.9 | 12.2 | 9 | 3.0 |
Diphtheria | 102 | 133 | 69 | 119 | 137 | 133 | 102 | 77 | 87 | 64 | 102.3 | 34.8 | 64 | 21.8 |
Whooping Cough | 62 | 113 | 128 | 122 | 59 | 70 | 33 | 151 | 53 | 110 | 90.1 | 30.6 | 44 | 15.0 |
Fever | 21 | 29 | 19 | 22 | 26 | 26 | 17 | 21 | 20 | 17 | 21.8 | 7.4 | 38 | 12.9 |
Diarrhœa | 95 | 94 | 77 | 74 | 128 | 54 | 146 | 109 | 151 | 143 | 107.1 | 36.4 | 157 | 53 .5 |
Total in Bethnal Green |