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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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SPECIAL CAUSES OF DEATH.
SUMMARY OF TABLE III.
| No. of Deaths. | Percentage on Total Deaths. | Mortality Rate on Population. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Order. | Classes | |||
| I.—Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases | 441 | 15.12 | 3.395 | |
| 1. Miasmatic Diseases | 293 | 10.00 | 2.225 | |
| 2. Diarrhœal „ | 123 | 4.21 | 0.947 | |
| 3. Malarial „ | 0.000 | |||
| 4. Zoogenous „ | 0.000 | |||
| 5. Venereal „ | 9 | 0.30 | 0.069 | |
| 6.Sentic | 16 | 0.54 | 0.123 | |
| II.-Parasitic Diseases | 3 | 3 | 0.10 | 0.023 |
| IIII.-Dietic Diseases | 19 | 19 | 0.65 | 0.146 |
| V.-Constitutional Diseases | 504 | 504 | 17.28 | 3.880 |
| 199 | 199 | 6.82 | 1.532 | |
| VI.-Local Diseases | 1485 | 49.72 | 11.432 | |
| 1. Diseases of Nervous System | 329 | 11.28 | 2.533 | |
| 2. Diseases of Organs of Special Sense | 0.000 | |||
| 3. Diseases of Circulatory System | 148 | 5.07 | 1.139 | |
| 4. Diseases of Respiratory System | 800 | 27.43 | 6.160 | |
| 5. Diseases of Digestive System | 109 | 0.839 | ||
| 6. Diseases of Lymphatic System | 1 | 0.03 | 0.007 | |
| 7- Diseases of Gland-like Organs of | ||||
| 8. Diseases of Urinary System | 63 | 2.16 | 0.485 | |
| 9. Diseases of Reproductive System | ||||
| 2 | 0.06 | 0.015 | ||
| 20 | 0.68 | 0.153 | ||
| 10. Diseases of Bones and Joints | 10 | 0.34 | 0.076 | |
| 11. Diseases of Integumentary System | 3 | 0.10 | 0.023 | |
| VII.—Violence | 90 | 3.08 | 0.693 | |
| 1. Accident or Negligence | 77 | 2.64 | 0.592 | |
| 2. Homicide | .. | |||
| 3. Suicide | 13 | 0.44 | 0.100 | |
| 4. Execution | ||||
| VIII —Ill-Defined and not specified Causes | 176 | 6.03 | 1.355 | |
| 2917 | ||||
Class I.
SPECIFIC FEBRILE OK ZYMOTIC DISEASE.
The total number of deaths referred to this group of diseases was
441, of which, 348 were cases of young children under five years of
ago, of whom 142 did not complete the first year of life: 123
of the deaths were from Diarrheal Diseases, 101 from Whooping
Cough, 73 from Measles, and 61 from Scarlet Fever.