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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 1879
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE IV. (B).
TOTAL MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS, AND DEATHS FROM SOME ZYMOTIC AND OTHER CAUSES,
BY QUARTERS.
| QUARTER ENDING. | Marriages. | Total Births during each Quarter. | Total Deaths during each Quarter. | THE DEATHS REGISTERED IN EACH QUARTER 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. | Fever. 1 | Diarrhoea. | Cholera. | Violence. | ||||||
| March 1879 | 454 | 1395 | 876 | 210 | 235 | 1 | 13 | 16 | 3 | 38 | 15 | 6 | .. | 17 | 64 | 152 |
| June, | 618 | 1161 | 693 | 170 | 139 | .. | 40 | 5 | 2 | 40 | 10 | 7 | .. | 16 | 46 | 138 |
| Sept. | 626 | 1276 | 644 | 198 | 109 | .. | 37 | 28 | 3 | 32 | 12 | 51 | 3 | 23 | 40 | 101 |
| Dec. | 745 | 1414 | 809 | 206 | 178 | .. | 16 | 22 | 6 | 42 | 9 | 8 | .. | 16 | 51 | 135 |
| Total | 2443 | 5246 | 3022 | 784 | 661 | 1 | 106 | 71 | 14 | 152 | 46 | 72 | 3 | 72 | 201 | 526 |