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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 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green, Parish of St. Matthew ]
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1897.
Vital Statistics— page
Population 5
Births 6
Deaths 7
Death.Rate 7
Correction for Age and Sex Distribution 8
Birth Rate 12
Marriages 13
Deaths of Infants 14
Deaths of Young Children 14
Old Persons' Death Rate 14
Special Causes of Death 14
Table of Deaths during the year 1897, in the Bethnal Green
Metropolitan District, classified according to Diseases, Ages,
and Localities 15
Analysis of the Vital and Mortal Statistics of the Sanitary
Districts of the Metropolis, after Distribution of Deaths
occurring in public Institutions, during the year 1897 20
The Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases 22
Notification of Infectious Diseases 23
Table G. Infectious Cases, 1897 26
Small Pox 27
Scarlet Fever 27
Enteric Fever 28
Typhus 28
Asylums Board Hospitals 28
Report of Fever and Diphtheria Cases admitted into Fever
Hospitals during the year 1897 29
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) 30
Puerperal Fever 31
Whooping Cough 37
Measles 37
Diarrhœal Diseases 38
Phthisis 39
Respiratory Diseases 39