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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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE III.
DEATHS REGISTERED AT SEVERAL GROUPS OF AGES FROM DIFFERENT CAUSES DURING THE YEAR 1877.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Under
3 months.
AGES.
Total.
3 m
to
1 yr.
1
to
2
2
to
5
5
to
15
15
to
25
25
to
35
35
to
45
45
to
55
55
to
65
65
to
75
75
to
35
85
to
95
95
and upwards.
Total
under
5 years
CLASSES.
I. Zymotic Diseases
37
139
129
166
66
11
17
13
13
8
13
3
..
..
471
615
II. Constitutional Diseases
15
77
59
41
25
61
101
66
57
45
19
9
1
..
192
576
III. Local Diseases
98
159
111
87
36
27
52
84
96
156
159
65
6
..
455
1136
IV. Developmental Diseases
161
59
21
3
..
6
4
5
4
19
67
72
29
3
244
453
V. Violent Deaths
28
22
4
7
5
2
6
7
6
7
5
2
..
..
61
101
Not specified or ill defined
• •
2
..
1
• •
..
2
..
..
..
..
..
..
• •
3
5
Totals
339
458
324
305
132
107
182
175
176
235
263
151
36
3
1426
2886
CLASS I.—Zymotic Diseases.
Order Miasmatic.
1 Small Pox
3
6
5
10
15
1
2
3
2
..
..
..
..
..
24
47
2 Measles
1
31
51
49
9
..
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
..
132
142
3 Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)
..
7
14
42
27
..
..
1
1
1
..
..
..
..
63
93
4 Diphtheria
..
3
1
1
1
2
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
5
8
5 Quinsy
..
..
1
2
..
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
3
4
6 Croup
1
5
9
15
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
30
31
7 Whooping Cough
4
27
25
30
3
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
86
89
8
Typhus Fever
..
..
1
1
1
1
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
2
5
Enteric or Typhoid F
..
..
..
4
4
2
7
2
1
1
1
..
..
..
4
22
Simple continued F
..
..
1
3
2
..
2
..
1
1
1
..
..
..
4
11
9 Erysipelas
3
1
2
2
..
..
..
2
..
2
8
1
..
..
8
13
10 Puerperal Fever (Metria)
..
..
..
..
..
1
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
2