Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE IV. ( A).
Total Births and Deaths, and Deaths from some Zymotic and other Causes.
| Quarter ending. | Area in Statute Acres. | Enumerated Population of 1871. | 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 yr. of age. | Persons aged 60 yrs. and upwards. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Cholera. | Violence. | |||||||
| Hackney Road. | |||||||||||||||||
| March, 1879 | 141 | 29832 | 329 | 174 | 44 | 33 | .. | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | .. | 1 | 12 | 6 |
| June „ | .. | .. | 282 | 129 | 37 | 13 | .. | 8 | 2 | .. | 12 | .. | 1 | .. | 6 | 9 | 6 |
| Sept. „ | .. | .. | 319 | 146 | 48 | 17 | .. | 12 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 1 |
| Dec. „ | .. | .. | 360 | 176 | 48 | 34 | .. | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | .. | 2 | 9 | 7 |
| Total | 1290 | 625 | 177 | 97 | .. | 26 | 18 | 7 | 38 | 7 | 17 | 2 | 15 | 41 | 20 | ||
| Green ,* | |||||||||||||||||
| March, 1879 | 390 | 42433 | 496 | 407 | 76 | 142 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 1 | .. | 7 | 28 | 146 |
| June „ | .. | .. | 465 | 349 | 59 | 93 | .. | 22 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 3 | .. | 5 | 17 | 132 |
| Sept. „ | .. | .. | 495 | 298 | 79 | 64 | .. | 14 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 16 | .. | 12 | 18 | 100 |
| Dec. „ | .. | .. | 530 | 389 | 78 | 110 | .. | 3 | 13 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 2 | .. | 5 | 20 | 128 |
| Total | 1986 | 1443 | 292 | 408 | 1 | 43 | 28 | 5 | 47 | 18 | 22 | .. | 29 | 83 | 506 | ||