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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 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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Synopsis
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1885.
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Sanitary History 1
Vital Statistics 15
Births and Birth Rate 18
Marriages 19
Deaths of Infants 19
Deaths of Young Children 20
Special Causes of Death—
Summary of Table III. 20
Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases 20
The Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases 21
Small Pox 22
Scarlet Fever 25
Fevers 25
Diphtheria 27
Whooping Cough 27
Measles 30
Diarrhoea 30
Precautions against the Infection of Cholera 34
Dietic Diseases—
Alcoholism 37
Privation 38
Constitutional Disease 38
Tubercular Disease 38
Developmental Disease 39
Diseases of the Nervous System 39
Respiratory Organs 39
Childbirth 40
Wasting Diseases of Infants 40
Inquests 41
Uncertified Deaths 41
Deaths in Public Institutions—
Bethnal Green Infirmary 42
Queen Adelaide's Dispensary 42