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Bethnal Green 1878

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

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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.

Table: TABLE V.Shewing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the10years1868 to1877,and in the year1878.*

TABLE V.

Shewing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the10years

1868 to1877,and in the year1878.*

DISEASE.1868186918701871187218731874187518761877Annual Average of 10 years, 1868—1877.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 yrs., 1868—1877.1878Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1878
Small Pox652422522694171318878.025.95518.0
Measles4612076388243192255614282.027.25919.4
Scarlet Fever469745210741171031938093122.940.86822.3
Diphtheria10111622655386.82.2144.6
Whooping cough123102172661181471011516189113.037.519263.1
Fever8896937763445868424867.722.55116.7
Diarrhœa129158148164159143159124112104140.046.58628.2
Total in Bethnal Green5076089597067344416255673855726104202.6525172.3
Total in London1492517413164761945512699113851123013411126961239014208.0184.314734176.0
* In each of the years to which this table applies, except 1877 and 1878, three months of the following year are included.