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Bethnal Green 1880

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.

Table: TABLE V.Shewing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the10years1870 to1879,and in the year1880.

TABLE V.

Shewing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the10years

1870 to1879,and in the year1880.

DISEASE.1870187118721873187418751876187718781879Annual Average of 10 years, 1870—1879.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 yrs., 1870—1879.1880Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1880.
Small Pox22522694171318855775.325.35117.5
Measles7638824319225561425910681.927.53411.6
Scarlet Fever452107411710319380936876123.041.311439.1
Diphtheria16226553814127.12.382.7
Whooping Cough172661181471011516189192147124.441.714048.0
Fever9377634458684248515660.020.13712.6
Diarrhœa1481641591431591241121048670126.942.616957.9
Total in Bethnal Green959706734441625567385572525474598.6200 8553189.4
Total in London1647619455126691138511230134111256512292147341225613647.3