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and fatality was respectively as follows : —Shoreditch, 251 and 58;
Bethnal Green, 474 and 101; Whitechapel, 289 and 58; St. George'sin-the-East,
219 and 50; Limehouse, 190 and 45; Mile End, 483
and 111 ; and Poplar 777 and 152, the major portion of the last
named being from the parishes of Bromley and Poplar, not Bow,
which only had 29 deaths and 215 notifications."
In 1896 in London generally diphtheria ranked fourth in the list
of fatal diseases, there having been 13,808 notifications with 2663
deaths, the death-rate being 0.59. These notifications, deaths, and
death-rates were spread over the Eastern Districts as follows
Shoreditch, 371, 74, 0.60; Bethnal Green, 460, 75, 0.57; Whitechapel,
351, 48, 0.60; St George's, 214, 30, 0.62 ; Limehouse, 270,
49, 0.83; Mile End, 551, 97, 0.86 ; Poplar, 701 105, 0.85. It will
be seen that the Poplar Sanitary District therefore has the largest
number of notifications and the largest number of deaths for the
whole of the Eastern Districts from this disease. Bow's figures were
243,23,0.55 respectively.
The record since 1880 stands :—
Bow —1880 14
1881 13
1882 23
1883 9
1884 10
1885 13
1886 14
1887 14
1888 Diphtheria 11
Croup 7 18
1889 Diphtheria 5
Croup 11 16
1890 Diphtheria 12 25
Croup 13
1891 Diphtheria 27 36
Croup 9
1892 Diphtheria 37 43
Croup 6
1893theria 86 91
Croup 5
1894 Diphtheria 40 42
Croup 2
1895 Diphtheria 28 29
Croup 1
1896 Diphtheria and
membranous Croup 23
Appended is the special table showing the summarised results made
in accordance with the desire of the Medical Officer of Health of the
London County Council.