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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 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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CAUSE OF DEATH.
AGES.
Total
under
5 years.
Total.
0
to
1
1
to
5
5
to
15
15
to
25
25
to
35
35
to
45
45
to
55
55
to
65
65
to
75
75
to
85
85 and
upwards
I.—Zymotic Diseases (continued).
Diphtheria
1
9
3
..
1
..
..
• •
..
• •
• •
10
14
Simple Continued Fever
• •
1
• •
• •
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
2
Enteric, or Typhoid Fever
• •
2
14
9
4
5
5
2
2
• •
• •
2
43
Other Miasmatic Diseases
1
• •
1
• •
• •
• •
• •
..
• •
• •
1
2
2. Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera
3
• •
• •
• •
..
• •
1
1
..
..
• •
3
5
Diarrhœa, Dysentery
101
26
• •
1
..
• •
1
1
2
..
• •
127
132
3. Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Ague
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
4. Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and vaccination
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glander)
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
5. Venereal Diseases.
Syphillis
19
2
• •
• •
..
2
1
• •
..
• •
• •
21
24
Gonorrhoea. Stricture
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
6. Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas
4
1
• •
2
• •
• •
1
• •
1
1
• •
5
10
Pyæmia, Septicœmia
• •
• •
1
• •
1
• •
• •
• •
1
• •
• •
• •
3
Puerperal Fever
..
..
..
4
1
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
6
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases
2
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
2
2
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasites
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
• •
• •
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation
6
1
• •
1
1
• •
..
• •
1
1
• •
7
11
Scurvy
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
• •
• •
Chronic Alcoholism
..
..
..
..
..
2
3
..
..
..
..
• •
5
Delirium Tremens
..
..
..
..
1
• •
1
1
..
• •
• •
• •
3