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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
Mile End 1897
Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the District for the year 1897
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TABLE 4. Table shewing the number of the principal infectious diseases notified since the passing of the Notification Act, 1889, together with the case mortality during the same period.
| No. notified. | Case mortality per cent. | No. notified. | Case mortality per cent, | No. notified. | Case mortality per cent. | No. notified. | Case mortality per cent. | No. notified. | Case mortality per cent. | No. no ti-fied. | Case mortality per cent. | No. notified. | Case mortality per cent. | No. notified. | Case mortality per cent. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890. | 1890. | 1891. | 1891. | 1802. | 1892. | 1893. | 1893. | 1894. | 1894. | 1895. | 1895. | 1896. | 1896. | 1897. | 1897. | |
| Small Pox | — | — | 6 | 33.3 | 10 | 10.0 | 116 | 6.8 | 42 | 9.5 | 49 | 2.0 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 403 | 6.8 | 232 | 5.1 | 936 | 3.8 | 1,199 | 3.3 | 578 | 6.0 | 685 | 3.6 | 763 | 4.9 | 808 | 1.4 |
| Diphtheria | 138 | 31.9 | 103 | 31.3 | 256 | 32.0 | 356 | 22.4 | 325 | 23.6 | 502 | 20.7 | 537 | 14.5 | 441 | 13.9 |
| Typhoid Fever | 127 | 17.3 | 101 | 21.7 | 78 | 21.7 | 152 | 19.0 | 103 | 14.5 | 84 | 17.8 | 115 | 13.9 | 81 | 27.7 |
| TABLE 4. Table shewing the number of the principal infectious diseases notified since the passing of the Notification Act, 1889, together with the case mortality during the same period. | ||||||||||||||||
| No. notified. | Case mortality per cent. | No. notified. | Case mortality per cent, | No. notified. | Case mortality per cent. | No. notified. | Case mortality per cent. | No. notified. | Case mortality per cent. | No. no ti-fied. | Case mortality per cent. | No. notified. | Case mortality per cent. | No. notified. | Case mortality per cent. | |
| 1890. | 1890. | 1891. | 1891. | 1802. | 1892. | 1893. | 1893. | 1894. | 1894. | 1895. | 1895. | 1896. | 1896. | 1897. | 1897. | |
| Small Pox | — | — | 6 | 33.3 | 10 | 10.0 | 116 | 6.8 | 42 | 9.5 | 49 | 2.0 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 403 | 6.8 | 232 | 5.1 | 936 | 3.8 | 1,199 | 3.3 | 578 | 6.0 | 685 | 3.6 | 763 | 4.9 | 808 | 1.4 |
| Diphtheria | 138 | 31.9 | 103 | 31.3 | 256 | 32.0 | 356 | 22.4 | 325 | 23.6 | 502 | 20.7 | 537 | 14.5 | 441 | 13.9 |
| Typhoid Fever | 127 | 17.3 | 101 | 21.7 | 78 | 21.7 | 152 | 19.0 | 103 | 14.5 | 84 | 17.8 | 115 | 13.9 | 81 | 27.7 |