Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT. 1898.
Vital Statistics— page
Population 6
Births 9
Deaths 9
Death Rate 10
Birth Rate 13
Marriages 14
Deaths of Infants 15
Deaths of Young Children 15
Old Persons' Death Rate 15
Special Causes of Death 15
Table of Deaths during the year 1898 in the Bethnal Green Metropolitan
District, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities 16
Death Rates of London Sanitary Areas during 1898 17
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 1898 21
The Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases 23
Notification of Infectious Diseases 24
Small Pox 29
Scarlet Fever 29
Enteric Fever 30
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) 31
Asylums Board Hospitals 32
Table G.—Infectious Cases, 1898 33
Report of Fever and Diphtheria Cases admitted into Fever Hospitals
during the year 1898 34
Table Mii (B).—Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of
Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer
of Health, during the year 1898, in the Sanitary District of Bethnal
Green, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities 35
Puerperal Fever 36
Whooping Cough 36
Measles 36
Diarrhœal Diseases 36
Tubercular Diseases 37
Respiratory Diseases 38