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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 1887
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1887.
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Vital Statistics—
Population 1
Deaths 1
Births 2
Death Rate 2
Births and Birth Rate 3
Marriages 8
Deaths of Infants 9
Deaths of Young Children 9
Special Causes of Death—
Summary of Table III. 10
Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases 10
The Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases 11
Small Pox 12
Scarlet Fever 12
Fevers 14
Diphtheria 18
Whooping Cough 18
Measles 19
Dietetic Diseases—
Alcoholism 19
Privation 19
Constitutional Disease 20
Tubercular Disease 20
Developmental Disease. 20
Diseases of the Nervous System 20
Respiratory Organs 21
Childbirth 21
Wasting Diseases of Infants 22
Inquests 22
Uncertified Deaths 22