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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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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT-

Table: TABLE V.Showing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the 10 years1888 to 1897 and in the year 1898.

TABLE V.

Showing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the 10 years

1888 to 1897 and in the year 1898.

Disease.1888188918901891189218931894189518961897Annual Average of 10 years 1888-1897.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1888-1897.1898Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1898.
Small Pox10005754002.20.700
Measles12413210610013182135110149109117.839.915152.6
Scarlet Fever12040342953712730402446.815.9113.8
Diphtheria52102133691191371331027787101.134.36422.3
Whcoping Cough167621131281225970331515395.832.511038.3
Fever2121291922262617212022.27.5175.9
Diarrhoea67959477741285414610915199.533.714.349.9
Total in Bethnal Green.552452509422526510450442547444485.4164.5496172.8