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 III.
SHEWING DEATHS REGISTERED FROM ALL CAUSES DURING THE YEAR 1885.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
AGE.
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. Specific Febrile, ok Zymotic Diseases
145
265
36
17
11
9
4
1
7
2
..
410
497
II.-Parasitic Diseases
2
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
2
2
III. Dietic Diseases
6
..
..
..
2
3
4
1
5
2
• •
6
23
IV.—Constitutional Diseases
74
75
26
50
84
84
62
44
15
8
1
149
523
V.—Developmental Diseases
82
..
1
..
..
1
2
4
18
59
24
82
191
VI.-Local Disseases
274
290
54
46
53
104
118
125
178
88
8
364
1338
VII.-Deaths from Violence
41
10
11
..
2
5
8
6
6
5
..
51
94
VIII.—Deaths from Ill-defined & not Specified causes
126
23
1
2
3
1
8
6
9
3
..
149
182
Total
750
663
129
115
155
207
206
187
238
167
33
1213
2850
I.—Zymotic Diseases.
1. Miasmatic Diseases.
Small Pox
Vaccinated
..
..
1
4
2
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
7
Unvaccinated
1
1
3
1
..
..
..
..
1
..
..
2
7
No Statement
2
1
3
1
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
3
8
Measles
35
123
4
..
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
158
163
Scarlet Fever
7
39
15
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
46
62
Typhus
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
Whooping Cough
25
65
2
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
• •
90
92