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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 1876
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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TABLE I.
Return of total Births and Deaths, and Deaths from some Zymotic and other causes, for the year ending March 31st, 1877.
Quarter ending.
Total Births during the
Quarter.
Total Deaths during the
Quarter.
THE DEATHS REGISTERED INCLUDE.
deaths of
deaths from
Inquest Cases.
Deaths in Public
Institutions.
Infants under 1 year
of age.
Persons aged 60 years
and upwards.
Small Pox.
Measles.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Whooping Cough.
Cholera.
Fevers.
Diarrhoea.
Violence.
June, 1876
1308
635
160
123
• •
7
16
1
36
• •
8
8
30
65
114
September, 1876
1251
666
279
111
• •
9
18
1
9
3
12
92
32
67
89
December, 1876
1319
713
202
132
9
20
33
1
3
• •
19
10
29
75
114
March 31, 1877
1000
699
174
169
22
20
13
• •
13
• •
3
2
23
57
122
Totals
5268
2713
815
535
31
56
80
3
61
3
42
112
114
264
439