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Bethnal Green 1886

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

Published
1887
Pages
103
Tables
49

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    THE VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ST. MATTHEW, BETHNAL GREEN, IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. Abstract and Summary of Accounts from the 25 th day of March, 1886, to the 2 5th day of March, 1887. GENERAL RATE.
    RECEIPTS.PAYMENTS.
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
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    SUMMARY.
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    MONEYS DUE TO, AND DEBTS OWING BY, THE VESTRY ON THE 25 TH MARCH, 1887.
    MONEYS DUE TO.MONEYS OWING BY.
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
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    SEWER RATE.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d.
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    METROPOLITAN CONSOLIDATED KATE.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d
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    CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO BY THE VESTRY During the Year ending 25th March , 1887.
    DATE.WITH.FOR.
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    REDEMPTION OF MORTGAGES GRANTED BY THE LATE PAVING COMMISSIONERS.
    £s.d.
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    SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1875. REPORT of the Public Analyst appointed for the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, upon the Articles Analysed by him under the above Act during the Quarter ending the 24th day of June, 1886.
    Article submitted for Analysis.State whether the sample was submitted to the Analyst by an Officer acting under the direction of a Local Authority, under Section 13 of Act, and if so, the name of such Authority.Result of the Analysis, showing whether the sample was Genuine or Adulterated, and, if Adulterated, what were the nature and extent of the Adulteration.OBSERVATIONS.
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    ANALYSIS FOE THE QUARTER ENDING THE 24 th JUNE, 1886 (C ontinued).
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    ANALYSIS FOE THE QUARTER ENDING THE 25 TH DECEMBER, 1886.
    Article submitted for Analysis.State whether the sample was submitted to the Analyst by an Officer acting under the direction of a Local Authority, under Section 13 of Act, and if so, the name of such Authority.Result of the Analysis, showing whether the sample was Genuine or Adulterated, and, if Adulterated, what were the nature and extent of the Adulteration.OBSERVATIONS.
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    ANALYSIS FOE THE QUARTER ENDING THE 25 TH MARCH, 1887.
    Article submitted for Analysis.State whether the sample was submitted to the Analyst by an Officer acting under the direction of a Local Authority, under Section 13 of Act, and if so, the name of such Authority.Result of the Analysis, showing whether the sample was Genuine or Adulterated, and, if Adulterated, what were the nature and extent of the Adulteration.OBSERVATIONS.
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    ANALYSIS FOR THE QUARTER ENDING THE 25 th MARCH, 1887 (C ontinued).
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    COMPOSITION RATE.—Mr. CHURCHWARDEN LOVEDAY's ACCOUNTS, 1886-87.
    RECEIPTS.EXPENDITURE.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d
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    ST, MATTHEW'S CHURCH.
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.
    £s.d.
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    The following amounts were paid for labour during Labour the year: — account.
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    APPLICATIONS FOR PROJECTIONS. The following applications were made to the Metropolitan Board of "Works, and remitted to this Vestry for their opinion, viz.:—
    Name of Street.Subject of Application.Recommendation of Vestry.Decision of Metropolitan Board of Works.
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    TABLE A. No. of Rouses, Workshops, &c., in the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green.
    Divisions.Collectors.Inhabited Houses.Workshops separate from Houses.Saw Mills, and Timber Yards.Schools.Remarks.
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    TABLE B.
    18851886
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    Analysis of the Vital and Mortal Statistics of the Sanitary Districts of the Metropolis, after complete distribution of Deaths occurring in Public Institutions, during the Year 1886.
    Sanitary Areas.Estimated Population middle of 1886.Births.Deaths.Annual Rate per 1000 living.Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases.Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.DiphtheriaWhooping- Cough.Typhus.Enteric Fever.Simple and Undefined Fever.Diarrhoea.Deaths of Children under one year of age to 1000 Births.
    Births.Deaths.Principal Zymotic Diseases.
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    Analysis of the Vital and Mortal Statistics (continued).
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    In the following Table are compared the mortality rates for London and for Bethnal Green by quarters:— TABLE C.
    London.Bethnal Green.
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    SPECIAL CAUSES OF DEATH. SUMMARY OF TABLE III.
    No. of Deaths.Per centage on Total Deaths.Mortality Rate on Population.
    Order.Classes
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    TABLE D.
    1885.1886.
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    TABLE F.
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    CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE, 1886 A.D.
    CASES REPORTED.ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL:
    SMALL POX.FEVERS.
    Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Typhus Fever.Simple Fever.Admitted.DischargedDied.RemainingAdmitted.DischargedDied.Remaining
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    The following is a list of cases in which the fatal termination of the disease was, in the opinion either of the Coroner's Jury or of the Medical attendant, accelerated by intemperate habits:—
    Sex.Age.Cause of Death.
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    TABLE II.
    Quarter ending.Children under 5 years.Persons from 5 to 55Persons above 55Total.Mean Temperature Fahrenheit.Rainfall in inches.
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    Inspectors' Report of the Sanitary Work, &c., completed in the Year ending December 31 .st, 1886,
    Disteicts.Total.
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    GROSS NUMBERS.
    The Year.Estimated Population.No. of Inhabited Houses.Marriages.Registered Births.Corrected Number of Deaths.Deaths in Public Institutions.
    Total all Ages.Under One Year.Under Kive Years.
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    Shewing the Annual Birth Bate, Rate of Mortality, Death Rate among Children, and Deaths in Public Institutions for the year 1886, and ten years preceding.
    YEAR.Birth Rate per 1000 of the Population.Annual Rate of Mortality per 1000 living.Deaths of Children under 1 year: per centage of Total Deaths.Per centage of Deaths of Children under 1 year to Registered Births.Deaths of Children under of years : per centage of Total Deaths.Total Number of Deaths in Public Institutions.
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    SHEWING TIIE DEATHS REGISTERED FROM ALL CAUSES DURING THE TEAR 1886.
    CAUSE OF DEATH.AGE.Total under 5 years.Total.
    0 to 11 to 55 to 151 15 1 to |2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 and upwds.
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    TABLE III. (Continued).
    CAUSE OF DEATH.AGE.Total under 5 years.Total.
    0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 55 •55 to 6565 75 to to 75 8585 and upwds.
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    TABLE III. (Continued).
    CAUSE OF DEATH.AGE.Total under 5 years.Total.
    0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 and upwds.
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    TABLE III. (Continued).
    CAUSE OF DEATH.AGE.Total under 5 years.Total.
    0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 and upwds.
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    Table III. (Continued).
    CAUSE OF DEATH.AGE.Total under 5 years.Total.
    0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 and upwds.
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    TABLE III. (Continued).
    CAUSE OF DEATH.AGE.Total under 5 years.Total.
    0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 and upwds.
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    Shewing the Mortality from certain classes of Diseases , and proportions to Population, and to 1000 deaths , 1886.
    DIVISION I. (Adults).Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of Population (all ages).Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths (all ages).
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    TABLE V. Shewing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the ten years , 1876 to 1885, and in the year 1886.
    DISEASE.1876187718781879188018811882188318841885Annual Average of 10 years, 1876, 1885.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in to years 1876,1885.1886Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1886.
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    The following Table compares the distribution of the population of Bethnal Green as enumerated in 1871 and 1881 with my estimate for 1886.
    District.Census, 1871.Census, 1881.Estimate, 1886.Area in Acres.
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    SUB-DISTRICT BIRTH AND MORTALITY RATES FOR 1886.
    District.Zymotic Death Rate.Tubercular Death Rate.General Death Rate.Gross Death Rate.Birth Rate.
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    CHURCH DISTRICT.
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular and other Diseases of a low type.General Diseases.Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular and other Diseases of a low type.General Diseases. ¡
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    CHURCH DISTRICT (Continued).
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular and other Diseases of a low type.General Diseases.Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular and other Diseases of a low type.General Diseases.
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    TOWN DISTRICT.
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular and other Diseases of a low type.General Diseases.Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular and other Diseases of a low type.General Diseases.
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    SAINT MATTHEW, BETHNAL GREEN. GREEN DISTRICT.
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular and other Diseases of a low type.General Diseases.Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular and other Diseases of a low type.General Diseases.
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    SAINT MATTHEW, BETHNAL GREEN. GREEN DISTRICT (Continued).
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular and other Diseases of a low type.General Diseases.Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular and other Diseases of a low type.General Diseases.
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    SAINT MATTHEW, BETHNAL GREEN. HACKNEY ROAD DISTRICT.
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular and other Diseases of a low type.General Diseases.Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular and other Diseases of a low type.General Diseases.