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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 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green, Parish of St. Matthew ]
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TABLE 1.
Showing the London Weather and Deaths, and the relative Mortality in Bethnal Green.
| METEOROLOGY. | DEATHS. | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1857. Months. | Mean Reading of Barometer, | Mean Temperature of Air. | Mean Dew point Temperature. | Relative proportion of Wind. | Daily Horizontal Movement of Air. | Amount of Rain in Inches. | In Bethnal Green. | In London. | |||||||||
| Total. | Annual percentage of Deaths in Bethnal Green. | Epidemic. | Percentage of Epidemic to Total Deaths. | Total. | Annual percentage of London Deaths. | Epidemic. | Percentage of Epidemic to Total Deaths. | ||||||||||
| N. | E. | S. | W. | ||||||||||||||
| ° | ° | ° | Miles. | ||||||||||||||
| January | 29.634 | 36.6 | 34.6 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 104 | 2.6 | 201 | 2.231, or 1 Death in 45. | 31 | 23.7 | 6228 | 2.220, or 1 Death in 45. | 892 | 18.28 |
| February | 29.952 | 39.2 | 35.5 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 51 | 0.2 | 199 | 30 | 5091 | 710 | ||||
| March | 29.720 | 41.8 | 36.8 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 88 | 0.8 | 193 | 26 | 4774 | 621 | ||||
| April | 29.632 | 45.7 | 40.0 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 91 | 1.4 | 154 | 20 | 4443 | 639 | ||||
| May | 29.786 | 54.0 | 45.8 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 55 | 0.6 | 185 | 52 | 5015 | 780 | ||||
| June | 29.858 | 61.8 | 52.0 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 87 | 2.7 | 149 | 40 | 3794 | 617 | ||||
| July | 29.847 | 64.5 | 54.8 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 58 | 1.1 | 178 | 57 | 4287 | 1118 | ||||
| August | 29.836 | 65.8 | 56.9 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 102 | 2.6 | 239 | 93 | 5917 | 1961* | ||||
| September | 29.786 | 59.7 | 55.2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 51 | 3.4 | 155 | 47 | 4055 | |||||
| October | 29.695 | 52.9 | 50.3 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 71 | 4.2 | 210 | 51 | 5118 | |||||
| November | 29.942 | 45.9 | 44.1 | 8 | l6 | 2 | 4 | 38 | 1.3 | 204 | 48 | 5082 | |||||
| December | 30.155 | 45.0 | 42.4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 18 | 117 | 0.5 | 224 | 48 | 6346 | |||||
| Totals of year. | 29.816 | 51.1 | 45.7 | 65 | 86 | 96 | 117 | 76 | 21.4 | 2291 | 543 | 60,150 | 10,998 | ||||
* Beyond this date I am unable to give the numbers of the London Epidemics; because, after July the Registrar-General left out the Small Pox
column, and substituted a Cholera column instead.