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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 1898

Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the District for the year 1898

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Table: TABLE 4. TABLE 4—continued. RETURNS OF MORTALITY IN THE HAMLET OF MILE END OLD TOWN FOR 1898. Including the Deaths occurring in the Workhouse Infirmary and excluding the Deaths of Parishioners of Mile End old in the Jewish Home, Stepney Green; Moses Alms Houses, Devonshire Street; Trinity which occurred in Public InstiAlms Houses; City of London Union; The East End Mothers Hom; and South Grove tntions outside the Hamlet, such as Workhouse. Hospitals, Asylums, Ac. Total Deaths from all causes.

TABLE 4. TABLE 4—continued. RETURNS OF MORTALITY IN THE HAMLET OF MILE END OLD TOWN FOR 1898. Including the Deaths occurring in the Workhouse Infirmary and excluding the Deaths of Parishioners of Mile End old in the Jewish Home, Stepney Green; Moses Alms Houses, Devonshire Street; Trinity which occurred in Public InstiAlms Houses; City of London Union; The East End Mothers Hom; and South Grove tntions outside the Hamlet, such as Workhouse. Hospitals, Asylums, Ac. Total Deaths from all causes.

DISEASES.AGES.AGES.AGES.
01515256501515256501. 5152565
151525659015152565901515256590
Smallpox......................................................
Scarlatina11............132.........242.........
Diphtheria41341......1258.........538121......
Membranous Croup28...........................28............
Typhus Fever......................................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.........21.........343.........364...
Continued Fever......................................................
Relapsing do.......................................................
Puerperal do..........31...............2............33...
Gastro Enteritis4132......41145......1...5537......51
Erysipelas1.........721......12...2......192
Measles16644.........15............17694.........
Whooping Cough25341............3............25371.........
Diarrhæa and Dysentery101.........46..................101.........46
Rheumatic Fever.........13..............................13...
Ague......................................................
Phthisis19175191171...44617119219251342
Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy7875828393917252488792107107101
Heart Disease13887642......641431314129045
Injuries231128 :...312722623910
All other Diseases320491314190185251410137933345632327269218
61129944514883385279363514947663.3788086637385