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Bethnal Green 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green, Parish of St. Matthew ]
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against 4.2 in 1896, whilst the corresponding rates for London were
21 in 1896 and 2.5 in 1897.
Table " F " shows the percentage of deaths from each disease as compared with the total number of Zymotic deaths.
TABLE F.
| Small Pox | 0 per cent., or 0 in 444 deaths. | |
| Measles | 24.55 | 1 in 4.07 „ |
| Scarlatina | 5.40 | „ 18.50 „ |
| Diphtheria | 19.60 | „ 510 „ |
| Whooping Cough | 11.94 | „. 8.38 „ |
| Typhus Fever | 022 „ | „ 444.00 „ |
| Enteric Fever | 405 „ | „ 24.67 „ |
| Simple Fever | 0.22 | „ 444.00 „ |
| Diarrhoea | 34.01 | „ 2.94 „ |
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Eighteen hundred and seventy-eight notification certificates have
been forwarded to me by Medical Practitioners. This gives a rate
of 14.5 on the estimated population, as against 10 2 for the whole of
London. One hundred and ten of the certificates were duplicate
notifications. Copies of all these certificates were duly forwarded
to the Asylums Board as they were received. The head teachers of
schools were also notified as required by law, and in addition this
was followed in due course by a certificate of disinfection in each
instance.
Table K211 (B) in the appendix shows the part of the parish in