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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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Table: FEMALES.

FEMALES.

March Quarter. Occupations.Total Number of Cases.Fatal Cases.General Diseases. Class I.General Diseases. Class II.Arthritic Diseases.Diseases of Nervous System.Diseases of Vascular System.Diseases of Respiratory System.Diseases of Digestive System.Diseases of Urinary System.Diseases of Generative Organs.Zymotic Diseases.
Domestic1713..22121151
In-door Trades6........1..4....1..
Out-door Trades........................
Poisonous or injurious........................
Professions11..........1........
Children and persons of no occupation10..1111141....1
Total No. of cases34..41342112161
Fatal cases..2..........1......1
June Quarter.
Domestic81..1..1..21..3..
Indoor-Trades7....141..1........
Out-door Trades........................
Poisonous or injurious........................
Professions........................
Children and persons of no occupation5121......2......1
Total No. of cases20..2342..51..31
Fatal cases..2..........2........
September Quarter.
Domestic123..1..2221..4..
In-door Trades7..1..4..1..1....1
Out-door Trades........................
Poisonous or injurious........................
Professions........................
No occupation2........1..1........
Children3..1........11......
Total No. of cases24..2143343..41
Fatal cases..3......111........
December Quarter.
Domestic111..121. .32..2..
In-door Trades9....13..11..21..
Out-door Trades........................
Poisonous or injurious........................
Professions........................
Children41..2..2............
No occupation1........1............
Total No. of cases252..45414223..
Fatal cases..2..1......1........

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"General Diseases, Class I.," embrace measles, scarlet fever, typhus, enteric fever, cerebrospinal
meningitis, pyaemia, ague, erysipelas, puerperal fever, acute tuberculosis, pyrexia (from
undetermined causes).
"General Diseases, Class II.," cmbrace purpura, scurvy, scrofula, rickets, anaimia, cancer,
syphilis, diabetes, general dropsy, &c.
Francis Warnbb, M.D., Medical Registrar.