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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 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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SYNOPSIS
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1878.
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Inquests 1
Population 6
Deaths 11
Annual Death Rate12
Births and Birth Rate 13
Marriages 13
Deaths of Infants 13
Deaths of Young Children 14
Deaths of Old People 15
Special Causes of Death:—
Zymotic Disease 15
Seven principal Zymotic Diseases 16
Small Pox 19
Measles21
Scarlatina 21
Diphtheria 21
Fever 22
Whooping Cough 22
Diarrhoea 22
Other Zymotic Diseases 23
Constitutional Disease24
Local Diseases 25
Developmental Disease 28
Violent Deaths 29
Deaths in Public Institutions 30
Workhouse Infirmary30
City of London Hospital, Victoria Park 31
Bethnall House Lunatic Asylum 32
Queen Adelaide Dispensary 32
Pauper Illness 32
London Hospita 33
Destruction of Infected Bedding36
Cow Houses 37
Regulations for Cow Sheds and Dairies 41