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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 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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Synopsis
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1882.
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Population 2
Births and Deaths 3
Annual Death Rate 4
Births and Birth Rate 5
Marriages 5
Deaths of Infants 5
Deaths of Young Children 6
Special Causes of Death:—
Summary of Table III 6
Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases 7
The Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases 7
Closure of Board Schools 11
Small Pox 12
Measles 13
Scarlet Fever 13
Diphtheria 13
Fever 13
Whooping Cough 13
Diarrhoea 14
Dietetic Diseases:—
Alcoholism 14
Constitutional Diseases 14
Tubercular Diseases 14
Developmental Disease 15
Diseases of the Nervous System 15
Respiratory Organs 15
Childbirth 17
Wasting Diseases of Infants 17
Inquests 17
Deaths in Public Institutions:—
Bethnal Green Infirmary 18
Queen Adelaide's Dispensary 18
Mildmay Mission Hospital 18
Bethnall House Lunatic Asylum 19
City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest 19
Pauper Illness 19