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Bethnal Green 1879
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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TABLE E.
REPORT
Of Cases admitted into the Small Pox and Fever Hospitals during the
Year 1879.
HOMERTON FEVER HOSPITAL
No. of Cases
remaining
at end of 1878.
No. of Cases
Admitted.
Discharged.
Died.
No. of Cases
remaining
at end of 1879.
10
62
54
13
5
HOMERTON SMALL POX HOSPITAL
0
27
20
4
3
DEPTFORD SMALL POX HOSPITAL
0
7
2
2
3
The decennial average of Zymotic disease for the years 1869 to
1878, is 612, no less than 138 above the number for 1879. The deaths
were equal to 152.4 per thousand from all causes.
In the subjoined table is shewn the per centage of each one of these
diseases on the total number of Zymotic deaths, including the hospital
cases.