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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 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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48
BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.

Table: TABLE IV.Shewing the Mortality from certain classes of Diseases, and proportions to Population and to WOO deaths, 1898.

TABLE IV.

Shewing the Mortality from certain classes of Diseases, and proportions to Population and to WOO deaths, 1898.

DIVISION I. (All Ages).Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of Population (all ages). 3.84Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths (all ages).
1. Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases496172.7
2. Pulmonary Diseases (other than Phthisis)6865.31238.9
3. Tubercular Diseases (including Pulmonary Phthisis)3903.02135.8
DIVISION II. (Young Children under Five Years of Age).Deaths.Deaths per 1000 young children.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths of young children.
4. Pulmonary Diseases31317.4219.0
5. Zymotic Diseases42623.6298.1
6. Tubercular Diseases1136.279.1

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NOTES.
1 and 4. Includes: Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping
Cough, Fever and Diarrhoea.
2. Includes : Pleurisy, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Asthma, and other nonTubercular
Lung Diseases.
3 and 6. Includes: Phthisis, Tubercular Diseases of Bones and Joints and Tabes
Mesenterica.